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Climate change, reforestation/afforestation, and urbanization impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe

Teuling, Adriaan J.; Badts, Emile A. G. de; Jansen, Femke A.; Fuchs, Richard ORCID iD icon 1; Buitink, Joost; Hoek van Dijke, Anne J.; Sterling, Shannon M.
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Since the 1950s, Europe has undergone large shifts in climate and land cover. Previous assessments of past and future changes in evapotranspiration or streamflow have either focussed on land use/cover or climate contributions or on individual catchments under specific climate conditions, but not on all aspects at larger scales. Here, we aim to understand how decadal changes in climate (e.g. precipitation, temperature) and land use (e.g. deforestation/afforestation, urbanization) have impacted the amount and distribution of water resource availability (both evapotranspiration and streamflow) across Europe since the 1950s. To this end, we simulate the distribution of average evapotranspiration and streamflow at high resolution (1 km²) by combining (a) a steady-state Budyko model for water balance partitioning constrained by long-term (lysimeter) observations across different land use types, (b) a novel decadal high-resolution historical land use reconstruction, and (c) gridded observations of key meteorological variables. The continental-scale patterns in the simulations agree well with coarser-scale observation-based estimates of evapotranspiration and also with observed changes in streamflow from small basins across Europe. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000098681
Veröffentlicht am 04.10.2019
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DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-3631-2019
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1607-7938
KITopen-ID: 1000098681
HGF-Programm 12.02.02 (POF III, LK 01) Vegetation climate- and land use system
Erschienen in Hydrology and earth system sciences
Verlag Copernicus Publications
Band 23
Heft 9
Seiten 3631–3652
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 09.09.2019
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