Atmospheric heat and moisture transport to energy- and water-limited ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: The land biosphere is a crucial component of the Earth system that interacts with the atmosphere in a complex manner through manifold feedback processes. These relationships are bidirectional, as climate affects our terrestrial ecosystems, which, in turn, influence climate. Great progress has been made in understanding the local interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and climate, but influences from remote regions through energy and water influxes to downwind ecosystems remain less explored. Using a Lagrangian trajectory model driven by atmospheric reanalysis data, we show how heat and moisture advection affect gross carbon production at interannual scales and in different ecoregions across the globe. For water-limited regions, results show a detrimental effect on ecosystem product

SUBMITTER: Schumacher DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature