Local moisture recycling across the globe

Theeuwen, Jolanda J. E.; Staal, Arie; Tuinenburg, Obbe A.; Hamelers, Bert V. M.; Dekker, Stefan C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1457-2023

Articles | Volume 27, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1457-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1457-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 27, issue 7

Research article

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04 Apr 2023

Research article |

| 04 Apr 2023

Local moisture recycling across the globe

Jolanda J. E. Theeuwen, Arie Staal, Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Bert V. M. Hamelers, and Stefan C. Dekker

Data sets

Local moisture recycling across the globe J. J. E. Theeuwen, A. Staal, O. A. Tuinenburg, H. V. Hamelers, and S. C. Dekker https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7684640

Global evaporation to precipitation flows obtained with Lagrangian atmospheric moisture tracking O. A. Tuinenburg, J. J. E. Theeuwen, and A. Staal https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.912710

The fate of evaporation - A global dataset A. Link, R. Van der Ent, M. Berger, S. Eisner, and M. Finkbeiner https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.908705

Model code and software

LocalMoistureRecycling J. Theeuwen https://github.com/jtheeu/LocalMoistureRecycling

Short summary

Evaporation changes over land affect rainfall over land via moisture recycling. We calculated the local moisture recycling ratio globally, which describes the fraction of evaporated moisture that rains out within approx. 50 km of its source location. This recycling peaks in summer as well as over wet and elevated regions. Local moisture recycling provides insight into the local impacts of evaporation changes and can be used to study the influence of regreening on local rainfall.