Eiras‐Barca et al. (2025) Revisiting the Impact of Moisture Transport Deficit on Droughts: Prospective Climate Change Analysis and Emerging Hypotheses

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Identification

• Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
• Year: 2025
• Date: 2025-11-01
• Authors: Jorge Eiras‐Barca, Luis Gimeno‐Sotelo, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Luís Gimeno
• DOI: 10.1002/wcc.70030

Research Groups

Not specified in the abstract.

Short Summary

This comprehensive review systematically examines the pivotal role of moisture transport deficits in the genesis and progression of droughts under climate change, confirming that these deficiencies amplify drought severity by reducing precipitation or intensifying evaporative demand.

Objective

• To systematically examine the pivotal function of moisture transport deficits in the genesis and progression of droughts in the context of climate change.
• To synthesize current knowledge of mechanisms governing the advection of moisture from oceanic and terrestrial sources and their impact on precipitation deficits and protracted drought events.
• To analyze climate projections and modeling methodologies to identify regions at high risk of intensified drought due to alterations in moisture transport.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Global
• Temporal Scale: Event-scale to multi-decadal (genesis and progression of droughts, protracted events, climate change context)

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Analysis of existing climate projections and modeling methodologies (specific models not named as this is a review).
• Data sources: Synthesis of current scientific literature, recent studies, and existing climate projections.

Main Results

• Deficiencies in moisture transport can amplify the severity of droughts.
• This amplification occurs either by reducing direct precipitation or by intensifying atmospheric evaporative demand.

Contributions

• Provides a systematic synthesis of current knowledge on the role of moisture transport deficits in drought genesis and progression under climate change.
• Identifies regions at high risk of intensified drought by analyzing existing climate projections and modeling methodologies.
• Emphasizes the critical need for improved drought prediction capabilities through probabilistic models and moisture tracking techniques to inform mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Funding

Not specified in the abstract.

Citation

@article{EirasBarca2025Revisiting,
  author = {Eiras‐Barca, Jorge and Gimeno‐Sotelo, Luis and Nieto, Raquel and Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M. and Gimeno, Luís},
  title = {Revisiting the Impact of Moisture Transport Deficit on Droughts: Prospective Climate Change Analysis and Emerging Hypotheses},
  journal = {Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1002/wcc.70030},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70030}
}