Articles | Volume 23, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3631-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3631-2019
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09 Sep 2019
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Climate change, reforestation/afforestation, and urbanization impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe

Adriaan J. Teuling, Emile A. G. de Badts, Femke A. Jansen, Richard Fuchs, Joost Buitink, Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, and Shannon M. Sterling
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Over the past decades, changes in land use and climate over Europe have impacted the average flow of water flowing through rivers and reservoirs (the so-called water yield). We quantify these changes using a simple but widely tested modelling approach constrained by observations of lysimeters across Europe. Results show that the contribution of land use to changes in water yield are of the same order as changes in climate, showing that impacts of land use changes cannot be neglected.