A past and present perspective on the European summer vapor pressure deficit

Nagavciuc, Viorica; Michel, Simon L. L.; Balting, Daniel F.; Helle, Gerhard; Freund, Mandy; Schleser, Gerhard H.; Steger, David N.; Lohmann, Gerrit; Ionita, Monica

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-573-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-573-2024

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A past and present perspective on the European summer vapor pressure deficit

Viorica Nagavciuc, Simon L. L. Michel, Daniel F. Balting, Gerhard Helle, Mandy Freund, Gerhard H. Schleser, David N. Steger, Gerrit Lohmann, and Monica Ionita

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-573-2024-supplement

Data sets

A past and present perspective on the European summer vapour pressure deficit D. F. Balting et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5958836

Stable oxygen isotope ratios of tree-ring cellulose from the site network of the EU-Project ``ISONET'' ISONET Project Members et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.3.2023.001

Model code and software

ClimIndRec 1.0 S. Michel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5716236

Co-editor-in-chief

This paper presents the first gridded reconstruction of the summer (June, July, and August) vapor pressure deficit (VPD) for the past four centuries at the European level. The reconstruction shows that from the mid-1700s, a trend towards higher summer VPD occurred in Central Europe and the Mediterranean region, a trend that has continued through the observational period. The reconstruction is based on 26 European tree-ring oxygen isotope records .