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The global potential of forest restoration for drought mitigation

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  • Title:
    The global potential of forest restoration for drought mitigation
  • Author: Tuinenburg, Obbe A ; Bosmans, Joyce H.C ; Staal, Arie
  • Subjects: climate change ; General Environmental Science ; moisture recycling ; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ; reforestation ; regreening ; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Description: Forest restoration is increasingly applied as a climate change mitigation measure. Apart from sequestering carbon, the large-scale addition of trees on Earth may enhance global precipitation levels. Here we estimate the global precipitation effects of the global forest potential by estimating its effects on evaporation and simulating the downwind precipitation effect of the moisture added to the atmosphere. We find that maximum forestation would on average increase evaporation by 0.6 mm d-1 and that two-thirds of that additional evaporation would rain out over land, especially during the growing season. Next, by excluding natural grasslands and prioritizing precipitation enhancement above areas that are projected to become drier due to global climate change, we establish where on Earth forest restoration would have the greatest precipitation benefits. Our results thus provide a first step towards forest restoration programs as double climate-change mitigation efforts.
  • Creation Date: 2022
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1748-9326
    EISSN: 1748-9326
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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