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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1527-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1527-2022
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22 Mar 2022
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Evaporation enhancement drives the European water-budget deficit during multi-year droughts

Christian Massari, Francesco Avanzi, Giulia Bruno, Simone Gabellani, Daniele Penna, and Stefania Camici

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Droughts are a creeping disaster, meaning that their onset, duration and recovery are challenging to monitor and forecast. Here, we provide further evidence of an additional challenge of droughts, i.e. the fact that the deficit in water supply during droughts is generally much more than expected based on the observed decline in precipitation. At a European scale we explain this with enhanced evapotranspiration, sustained by higher atmospheric demand for moisture during such dry periods.
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