Dynamic soil-moisture trends closely correspond spatially to dynamic precipitation trends (Pearson correlation = 0.80), indicating precipitation trends drive much of the overall drying pattern.

Evidence (2)

European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Partitioning post-1980 hydroclimate trends between circulation and thermodynamic forcing

suggesting that overall drying patterns are driven to a large extent by precipitation trends

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-3-p7

European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Partitioning post-1980 hydroclimate trends between circulation and thermodynamic forcing

suggesting that overall drying patterns are driven to a large extent by precipitation trends

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-3-p7

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