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@ARTICLE{Emmerichs:1017763,
author = {Emmerichs, Tamara and Lu, Yen-Sen and Taraborrelli,
Domenico},
title = {{T}he importance of plant-water stress for predictions of
ground-level ozone in a warm world},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-04296},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Evapotranspiration is important for Earth’s water and
energy cycles as it strongly affects air temperature,
cloudcover and precipitation. Leaf stomata are the conduit
of transpiration and thus their opening is sensitive to
weather and climateconditions. This feedback can exacerbate
heat waves and droughts and can play a role in their
spatio-temporal propagation.Therefore, the plant response to
available water is a key element mediating
vegetation-atmosphere interactions. Sustained
hightemperatures strongly favor high ozone levels with
significant negative effects on air quality and thus human
health. Our studyassesses the process representation of
evapotranspiration in the atmospheric chemistry model
ECHAM/MESSy. Diverse waterstress parametrizations are
implemented in a stomatal model based on CO2 assimilation.
The stress factors depend on eithersoil moisture or leaf
water potential and act directly on photosynthetic activity,
mesophyll and stomatal conductance. Overall,the new
functionalities reduce the initial overestimation of
evapotranspiration in the model globally by more than one
orderof magnitude which is most important in the Southern
Hemisphere. The intensity of simulated warm spells over
continentsis significantly enhanced. With respect to ozone,
we find that a realistic model representation of plant-water
stress depressesuptake by vegetation and enhances its
photochemical production in the troposphere. These effects
lead to a general increasesin simulated ground-level ozone
which is most pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere over the
continents. The uncertaintiesfor plant dynamics
representation due to too shallow roots can be addressed by
more sophisticated land surface models withmulti-layer soil
schemes. In regions with low evaporative loss, however, the
representation of precipitation remains the
largestuncertainty.},
cin = {IEK-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {2111 - Air Quality (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.5194/egusphere-2023-2306},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1017763},
}