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EESA visiting postdoctoral fellow Sha Zhou led a recent study exploring why climate models do not project drylands will become substantially drier with climate change as scientists have long believed. A paper published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change, “Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands,” describes the importance of long-term changes in soil moisture and associated soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks to predicting the impact climate change will have on dryland ecosystems, which cover more than 40% of Earth’s surface. This work was supported in part by the RUBISCO SFA and the DOE Early Career Research Program award, under the supervision of EESA research scientist Trevor Keenan. Read more here from the press release issued by Columbia Engineering.