Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-157-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-157-2019
Research article
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19 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 19 Mar 2019

Potential of global land water recycling to mitigate local temperature extremes

Mathias Hauser, Wim Thiery, and Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne

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We develop a method to keep the amount of water in the soil at the present-day level, using only local water sources in a global climate model. This leads to less drying over many land areas, but also decreases river runoff. We find that temperature extremes in the 21st century decrease substantially using our method. This provides a new perspective on how land water can influence regional climate and introduces land water management as potential tool for local mitigation of climate change.
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