Future drought risk therefore depends on both thermodynamic forcing and the future behavior of circulation trends: externally forced circulation changes could intensify drying beyond thermodynamic-only expectations, whereas internally generated trends could reverse and temporarily offset it.

Future drought risk therefore depends on both thermodynamic forcing and the future behavior of circulation trends: externally forced circulation changes could intensify drying beyond thermodynamic-only expectations, whereas internally generated trends could reverse and temporarily offset it.

• The clearest positive forced signal is the declining frequency of cyclonic conditions over Northern Europe (WR1), linked to the reduced poleward temperature gradient, implying continued forcing could further reduce WR1 and northwestern-European precipitation.
  Evidence for this premise (1)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s

  The clearest forced signal appears in the decreasing frequency in cyclonic conditions over Northern Europe, linked to the reduced poleward temperature gradient

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-6-pE1
• The nudged CESM2 analysis attributes the majority of the 1980–2024 European soil-moisture drying trend and about 42% of the VPD increase to circulation-induced trends.
  Evidence for this premise (1)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Projection implications, attribution uncertainty, and limitations

  circulation-induced trends caused the majority of the 1980–2024 drying trend in soil moisture and about 42% of the increasing trend in VPD

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-6-p1
• Dynamic variability modulates thermodynamic drying, amplifying it under warm, dry dynamic conditions and mitigating it under cold, wet conditions, through exponentially rising VPD and dampened precipitation deficits in moist conditions.
  Evidence for this premise (1)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Projection implications, attribution uncertainty, and limitations

  the thermodynamic drying component is modulated by the dynamic variability, amplifying (mitigating) drying during warm and dry (cold and wet) dynamic conditions

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-6-p6

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