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Environmental Research Letters, 2015
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Mao, J., Fu, W., Shi, X., Ricciuto, D., Fisher, J., Dickinson, R., … Zhu, Z. (2015). Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends. Environmental Research Letters.
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Mao, J., W. Fu, Xiaoying Shi, D. Ricciuto, J. Fisher, R. Dickinson, Yaxing Wei, et al. “Disentangling Climatic and Anthropogenic Controls on Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Trends.” Environmental Research Letters (2015).
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Mao, J., et al. “Disentangling Climatic and Anthropogenic Controls on Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Trends.” Environmental Research Letters, 2015.
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@article{j2015a,
title = {Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends},
year = {2015},
journal = {Environmental Research Letters},
author = {Mao, J. and Fu, W. and Shi, Xiaoying and Ricciuto, D. and Fisher, J. and Dickinson, R. and Wei, Yaxing and Shem, W. and Piao, S. and Wang, Kaicun and Schwalm, C. and Tian, H. and Mu, M. and Arain, M. A. and Ciais, P. and Cook, R. and Dai, Yongjiu and Hayes, D. and Hoffman, F. and Huang, Maoyi and Huang, S. and Huntzinger, D. and Ito, A. and Jain, A. and King, A. and Lei, H. and Lu, Chaoqun and Michalak, A. and Parazoo, N. and Peng, C. and Peng, S. and Poulter, B. and Schaefer, K. and Jafarov, Elchin E. and Thornton, P. and Wang, Weile and Zeng, N. and Zeng, Zhenzhong and Zhao, F. and Zhu, Qiu'an and Zhu, Zaichun}
}
We examined natural and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) changes from 1982 to 2010 using multiple estimates from remote sensing-based datasets and process-oriented land surface models. A significant increasing trend of ET in each hemisphere was consistently revealed by observationally-constrained data and multi-model ensembles that considered historic natural and anthropogenic drivers. The climate impacts were simulated to determine the spatiotemporal variations in ET. Globally, rising CO2 ranked second in these models after the predominant climatic influences, and yielded decreasing trends in canopy transpiration and ET, especially for tropical forests and high-latitude shrub land. Increasing nitrogen deposition slightly amplified global ET via enhanced plant growth. Land-use-induced ET responses, albeit with substantial uncertainties across the factorial analysis, were minor globally, but pronounced locally, particularly over regions with intensive land-cover changes. Our study highlights the importance of employing multi-stream ET and ET-component estimates to quantify the strengthening anthropogenic fingerprint in the global hydrologic cycle.