Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth.

ABSTRACT: The mechanistic pathways connecting ocean-atmosphere variability and terrestrial productivity are well-established theoretically, but remain challenging to quantify empirically. Such quantification will greatly improve the assessment and prediction of changes in terrestrial carbon sequestration in response to dynamically induced climatic extremes. The jet stream latitude (JSL) over the North Atlantic-European domain provides a synthetic and robust physical framework that integrates climate variability not accounted for by atmospheric circulation patterns alone. Surface climate impacts of north-south summer JSL displacements are not uniform across Europe, but rather create a northwestern-southeastern dipole in forest productivity and radial-growth anomalies. Summer JSL variability over the

SUBMITTER: Dorado-Linan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9018849 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature