Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Recent global decline in rainfall interception loss due to altered rainfall regimes

  • Xu Lian,
  • Wenli Zhao,
  • Pierre Gentine

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35414-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Canopy rainfall interception (E i ) is a key component of global water cycle. Here, the authors quantify E i using flux tower data and machine learning, and find that rainfall gets less partitioned into E i as it gets more intense and less frequent.