Monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958-2019
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TerraClimate
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TerraClimate is a dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958-2019. These data provide important inputs for ecological and hydrological studies at global scales that require high spatial resolution and time-varying data. All data have monthly temporal resolution and a ~4-km (1/24th degree) spatial resolution. The data cover the period from 1958-2020. We have also provided future TerraClimate layers commensurate with global mean temperatures +2C and +4C above preindustrial levels. These data are available for pseudo years 1985-2015. TerraClimate uses climatically aided interpolation, combining high-spatial resolution climatological normals from the WorldClim dataset, with coarser spatial resolution, but time-varying data from CRU Ts4.0 and the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA55).
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Contrasting age-dependent leaf acclimation strategies drive vegetation greening across deciduous broadleaf forests in mid- to high latitudes
Fangyi Wang•Meimei Xue•Liming Zhou•Christopher E. Doughty•Philippe Ciais等 33 人
Nature Plants
2025
•2025/9/8
•00 p.1-11
Increasing leaf area and extending vegetation growing seasons are two primary drivers of global greening, which has emerged as one of the most significant responses to climate change. However, it remains unclear how these two leaf acclimation strategies would vary across forests at a large spatial s...
Phenology
10.1038/S41477-025-02096-5
ISSN:2055-0278
Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests
Hammond William M.•Williams A. Park•Abatzoglou John T.•Adams Henry D.•Klein Tamir等 10 人
Nature Communications
2022
•2022/4/5
•Vol.13 No.1 p.1-11
Earth’s forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital importance of forests to global ecosystem services, their fates in a warming world remain highly uncertain. Lacking is quantitativ...
Climate-change ecologyClimate-change impactsForest ecology
10.1038/S41467-022-29289-2
ISSN:2041-1723
Snowmelt risk telecouplings for irrigated agriculture
Qin Yue•Hong Chaopeng•Zhao Hongyan•Siebert Stefan•Abatzoglou John T.等 13 人
Nature Climate Change
2022
•2022/10/31
•Vol.12 No.11 p.1007-1015
Climate change is altering the timing and magnitude of snowmelt, which may either directly or indirectly via global trade affect agriculture and livelihoods dependent on snowmelt. Here, we integrate subannual irrigation and snowmelt dynamics and a model of international trade to assess the global re...
Climate-change adaptationEnvironmental impact
10.1038/S41558-022-01509-Z
ISSN:1758-678X
Counteracting greenhouse gas and aerosol influences intensify global water seasonality over the past century
Fubo Zhao•Wenbo Shi•Yiping Wu•Yanqing Lian•Qiang Li
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/1/18
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-9
Variations in water availability seasonality significantly impact society and ecosystems. While many studies have focused on mean or extreme precipitation, the response of water availability seasonality, influencing yearly water distribution beyond individual extremes, to human-induced climate chang...
Climate-change impactsHydrology
10.1038/S43247-025-02025-6
ISSN:2662-4435
Super El Niño events drive climate regime shifts with enhanced risks under global warming
Aoyun Xue•Xin Geng•Fei-Fei Jin•Yechul Shin•Mi-Kyung Sung等 6 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/12/12
0Climate regime shifts (CRSs), characterized by abrupt and persistent transitions between alternative stable states in the climate system, pose serious threats to ecosystems and human well-being. Understanding the potential drivers of CRSs is crucial, particularly in a warming world where CRSs are be...
Physical oceanographyProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41467-025-66143-7
ISSN:2041-1723
Spatio-temporally explicit reconstruction of upper range limit of trees since the LGM over the Tibetan Plateau
Jinfeng Xu•Xiaoyi Wang•Xianyong Cao•Eryuan Liang•Lin Zhang等 7 人
Scientific Data
2025
•2025/5/26
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-10
Paleo-changes in upper range limit of trees provide a valuable analogue for understanding how high-elevational-trees may respond to future climate. Here, we presented a high-resolution (1 km) reconstruction of paleo-changes in the upper range limits of trees across the Tibetan Plateau, at 100-year i...
Forest ecologyPalaeoecology
10.1038/S41597-025-05236-W
ISSN:2052-4463
Increased photosynthesis during spring drought in energy-limited ecosystems
David L. Miller•Sebastian Wolf•Joshua B. Fisher•Benjamin F. Zaitchik•Jingfeng Xiao等 6 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/11/29
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-10
Drought is often thought to reduce ecosystem photosynthesis. However, theory suggests there is potential for increased photosynthesis during meteorological drought, especially in energy-limited ecosystems. Here, we examine the response of photosynthesis (gross primary productivity, GPP) to meteorolo...
Carbon cycleEcosystem ecology
10.1038/S41467-023-43430-9
ISSN:2041-1723
Weather drivers of reproductive variability in perennial plants and their implications for climate change risks
Valentin Journé•Dave Kelly•Andrew Hacket-Pain•Ian S. Pearse•Jakub Szymkowiak等 11 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/10/17
•Vol.16 No.1 p.1-12
Seed production in perennial plants often shows strong year-to-year variation, a phenomenon known as masting. Masting is typically adaptive and driven by weather cues that synchronize reproduction by promoting or suppressing flowering and seed set. These cues, involving temperature, precipitation, a...
BiodiversityForest ecologyPlant ecologyPlant reproduction
10.1038/S41467-025-64300-6
ISSN:2041-1723
Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems
Wang Jian•Liu Desheng•Ciais Philippe•Peñuelas Josep
Nature Climate Change
2022
•2022/2/14
•00 p.1-7
Climate change substantially advances the leaf onset date (LOD) and regulates carbon uptake by plants. Unlike temperature, the effect of precipitation remains largely elusive. Here we use carbon-flux measurements, in situ records of leaf unfolding and satellite greenness observations to examine the ...
Climate-change ecologyEcosystem ecology
10.1038/S41558-022-01285-W
ISSN:1758-678X