Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Vegetation forcing modulates global land monsoon and water resources in a CO2-enriched climate

  • Jiangpeng Cui,
  • Shilong Piao,
  • Chris Huntingford,
  • Xuhui Wang,
  • Xu Lian,
  • Amulya Chevuturi,
  • Andrew G. Turner,
  • Gabriel J. Kooperman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18992-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Monsoon systems have strong impacts on precipitation and food security over large areas of the world. Here, the authors show that plant responses to rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere play a key role in modulating seasonal rainfall and water resources over global land monsoon regions.