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How Important is Vegetation Phenology for European Climate and Heat Waves?

dc.contributor.author Lorenz, Ruth en_US
dc.contributor.author Davin, E en_US
dc.contributor.author Lawrence, D en_US
dc.contributor.author Stockli, R en_US
dc.contributor.author Senaviratne, S en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:29:54Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:29:54Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.description.abstract It has been hypothesized that vegetation phenology may play an important role for the midlatitude climate. This study investigates the impact of interannual and intraseasonal variations in phenology on European climate using regional climate model simulations. In addition, it assesses the relative importance of interannual variations in vegetation phenology and soil moisture on European summer climate.It is found that drastic phenological changes have a smaller effect on mean summer and spring climate than extreme changes in soil moisture (roughly 1/4 of the temperature anomaly induced by soil moisture changes). However, the impact of phenological anomalies during heat waves is found to be more important. Generally, late and weak greening has amplifying effects and early and strong greening has dampening effects on heat waves; however, regional variations are found. The experiments suggest that in the extreme hot 2003 (western and central Europe) and 2007 (southeastern Europe) summers the decrease in leaf area index amplified the heat wave peaks by about 0.5 degrees C for daily maximum temperatures (about half of the effect induced by soil moisture deficit). In contrast to earlier hypotheses, no anomalous early greening in spring 2003 is seen in the phenological dataset employed here. Hence, the results indicate that vegetation feedbacks amplified the 2003 heat wave but were not responsible for its initiation. In conclusion, the results suggest that phenology has a limited effect on European mean summer climate, but its impact can be as important as that induced by soil moisture anomalies in the context of specific extreme events. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0894-8755 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/53694
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title How Important is Vegetation Phenology for European Climate and Heat Waves? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.description.publisherStatement © Copyright (2013) American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act September 2010 Page 2 or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyrights@ametsoc.org. en_US
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00040.1 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Science
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 24 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Journal of Climate en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 10077-10100 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 26 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Lorenz, Ruth, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), Faculty of Science, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Davin, E en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Lawrence, D en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Stockli, R en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Senaviratne, S en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences *
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