TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hartick, Carl
AU  - Furusho-Percot, Carina
AU  - Clark, Martyn P.
AU  - Kollet, Stefan
TI  - An Interannual Drought Feedback Loop Affects the Surface Energy Balance and Cloud Properties
JO  - Geophysical research letters
VL  - 49
IS  - 22
SN  - 0094-8276
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
PB  - Wiley
M1  - FZJ-2022-04659
SP  - 9 pages
PY  - 2022
AB  - Long-term groundwater droughts are known to persist over timescales from multiple years up to decades. The mechanisms leading to drought persistence are, however, only partly understood. Applying a unique terrestrial system modeling platform in a probabilistic simulation framework over Europe, we discovered an important positive feedback mechanism from groundwater into the atmosphere that may increase drought persistence at interannual time scales over large continental regions. In the feedback loop, groundwater drought systematically increases net solar radiation via a cloud feedback, which, in turn, increases the drying of the land. In commonly applied climate and Earth system models, this feedback cannot be simulated due to a lack of groundwater memory effects in the representation of terrestrial hydrology. Thus, drought persistence and compound events may be underestimated in current climate projections.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000888519700001
DO  - DOI:10.1029/2022GL100924
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/911376
ER  -