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Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance
Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of
Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Climate Change
Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Andrew J. Pitman
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Climate Change
Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Weidong Guo
Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of
Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth
System Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Beilei Zan
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Regions, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Congbin Fu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of
Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth
System Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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Short summary
We investigate the impact of revegetation on the hydrology of the Loess Plateau based on high-resolution simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. We find that past revegetation has caused decreased runoff and soil moisture with increased evapotranspiration as well as little response from rainfall. WRF suggests that further revegetation could aggravate this water imbalance. We caution that further revegetation might be unsustainable in this region.
We investigate the impact of revegetation on the hydrology of the Loess Plateau based on...
