Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point

Published:2020-11-27 Issue:6520 Volume:370 Page:1095-1099
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Zhang Peng¹²^ORCID,Jeong Jee-Hoon¹^ORCID,Yoon Jin-Ho³^ORCID,Kim Hyungjun⁴^ORCID,Wang S.-Y. Simon⁵^ORCID,Linderholm Hans W.²^ORCID,Fang Keyan²⁶^ORCID,Wu Xiuchen⁷⁸^ORCID,Chen Deliang²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

2. Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

3. School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea.

4. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

5. Department of Plants, Soils and Climate/Utah Climate Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.

6. Key Laboratory of Humid Subtropical Eco-Geographical Process (Ministry of Education), College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.

7. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

8. Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

A dangerous trend How anthropogenically driven climate change is affecting heat waves and drought is one of the most important environmental issues facing societies around the globe. Zhang et al. present a 260-year-long record of temperature and soil moisture over inner East Asia that reveals an abrupt shift to hotter and drier conditions (see the Perspective by Zhang and Fang). Extreme episodes of hotter and drier climate over the past 20 years, which are unprecedented in the earlier records, are caused by a positive feedback loop between soil moisture deficits and surface warming and potentially represent the start of an irreversible trend. Science , this issue p. 1095 ; see also p. 1037

Funder

Swedish Research Council Formas

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Korea Meteorological Administration

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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