Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

Accepted/In Press date: 10 October 2010

Published date: 21 October 2010

Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgements This work used eddy covariance data acquired by the FLUXNET community and in particular by the following networks: AmeriFlux (US Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Carbon Program; DE-FG02-04ER63917 and DE-FG02-04ER63911), AfriFlux, AsiaFlux, CarboAfrica, CarboEuropeIP, CarboItaly, CarboMont, ChinaFlux, Fluxnet-Canada (supported by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, BIOCAP, Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada), GreenGrass, KoFlux, the Largescale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment inAmazonia,theNordicCentrefor Studies ofEcosystemCarbonExchange, OzFlux, the Terrestrial Carbon Observatory System Siberia and US–China Carbon Consortium. We acknowledge the support to the eddy covariance data harmonization provided by CarboEuropeIP; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Global Terrestrial Observing System Terrestrial Carbon Observations; the Integrated Land Ecosystem–Atmosphere Processes Study, a core project of the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme; the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; the National Science Foundation; the University of Tuscia; Université Laval; Environment Canada; and the US Department of Energy. We acknowledge database development and technical support from Berkeley Water Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Microsoft Research eScience, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and University of Virginia. We thank the members of FLUXNET (http://www.fluxdata.org/DataInfo) for their help with the data on this work. TRMM soil moisture retrievals and analysis were supported by the European Union (FP6) funded integrated project called WATCH (contract number 036946)thatsupportedA.J.D.and R.d.J.M.J.andM.R. were supportedbythe European Union (FP7) integrated project COMBINE (number 226520) and a grant from the Max-Planck Society establishing the MPRG Biogeochemical Model-Data Integration. C.W. was supported by the US National Science Foundation under grant ATM-0910766. D.P. acknowledges the support of the Euro–Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change. We acknowledge institutions and projects for free access to relevant data: the Global Runoff Data Centre, the Global Soil Wetness Project 2, the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, the Global Precipitation Climatology Project, the Global Historical Climatology Network, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the University of East Anglia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Local EPrints ID: 480880

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/480880

DOI: doi:10.1038/nature09396

ISSN: 0028-0836

PURE UUID: d7a27c52-8a49-4168-9140-69a2ee7509cb

ORCID for Justin Sheffield: orcid.org/0000-0003-2400-0630

ORCID for Andrew D. Richardson: orcid.org/0000-0002-1805-7393

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