Extreme weather and dry fuel drove Spain’s Jarilla megafire
A retrospective study of Spain’s 2025 Jarilla wildfire found that extreme atmospheric drying and continuous, water-stressed fuel drove widespread high ...
Tag: Vapor Pressure Deficit
Wind Emerges as an Overlooked Regulator of How Efficiently Ecosystems Use Water
A global analysis of flux-tower observations and Earth system models shows that rising wind speed lowers ecosystem water use efficiency ...
One Term, Fourteen Metrics: Why Water Use Efficiency Means Different Things to Different Scientists
A new review catalogues fourteen conflicting definitions of water use efficiency and proposes a harmonized framework to make the widely ...
Vanishing Sea Ice and Parched Soils Supercharge Siberia’s Fire Weather, Study Finds
A new study shows that melting Laptev Sea ice triggers circulation and soil-drying feedbacks that amplify vapor pressure deficit and ...
New Two-Step Algorithm Maps Four Decades of US Droughts in Space and Time
Researchers have developed a two-level spatiotemporal clustering algorithm that automatically extracts individual drought events from 42 years of United States ...
Sensors and Drones Reveal How Thinned Spruce Forests Weather Drought
A two-year Finnish field campaign combining sap-flow sensors, eddy-covariance towers and drone imaging shows that selectively thinned Norway spruce stands ...
Drier Air Is Quietly Rewiring How the Planet Loses Water, 40-Year Global Analysis Reveals
A 40-year global analysis shows that rising vapor pressure deficit increases evapotranspiration across about 61 percent of land but suppresses ...
Sun and Wind, Not Temperature, Drive Evaporation Across Brazil’s Climates
A thirty-year analysis of six Brazilian cities shows that solar radiation and wind speed, not air temperature, govern reference evapotranspiration, ...
Rising Carbon Dioxide Is Helping Central China’s Ecosystems Squeeze More Growth From Every Drop of Water
A nine-year satellite study of Henan Province shows ecosystem water use efficiency rose significantly from 2008 to 2016, driven mainly ...
Vapor Pressure Deficit Emerges as Key Driver of Indiana Maize Yield Swings
A 25-year analysis of Indiana county yields and climate data identifies vapor pressure deficit and extreme heat around flowering as ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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