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Francesco Giardina
@francescogiardina.bsky.social
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Researcher at ETH Zurich focusing on plant-water interactions. Alumn at EPFL and Columbia University. Alpinist, yogi, dancer (he/him).

#Ecophysiology #Climate #AI
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In our latest paper, we found that most climate models overestimate plant water stress—especially in the Amazon. But is that really good news for a warming world?

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Rethinking Amazon water stress in Earth system models
Our analysis shows that Earth system models paint the Amazon as being under water stress more frequently than what satellite observations and flux-tower measurements suggest. Correcting this bias coul...
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June 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Can we trust Earth system models to locate and quantify land-surface water stress?

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Thank you @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, @ryanpad.bsky.social, Benjamin Stocker and Dominik Schumacher
Large biases in the frequency of water limitation across Earth system models - Communications Earth & Environment
CMIP6 Earth system models overestimate the frequency of water-limited conditions on land, by about 14% globally and 26% in the tropics, according to analyses using solar-induced fluorescence, satellit...
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM