Because nudged HIST reproduces key observed temperature, precipitation, soil-moisture, and VPD variability and long-term trends, the framework is sufficiently validated for this decomposition.

Because nudged HIST reproduces key observed temperature, precipitation, soil-moisture, and VPD variability and long-term trends, the framework is sufficiently validated for this decomposition.

• Monthly precipitation anomalies in HIST have an average domain correlation of 0.85 with ERA5, although correlations are strongest in western Europe and decline eastward.
  Evidence for this premise (2)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  with an average correlation of 0.85 over the domain

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p9

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  The highest Pearson correlation values for monthly precipitation anomalies are found in western Europe and decrease eastwards, with an average correlation of 0.85 over the domain (Fig.

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p9
• For 2015–2024 monthly anomalies, HIST temperature agrees strongly with ERA5, with a domain-wide Pearson correlation of 0.93.
  Evidence for this premise (2)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  a domain-wide Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.93

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p7

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  The HIST simulation shows strong agreement with ERA5 monthly temperature anomalies, with a domain-wide Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.93 (Fig.

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p7
• Monthly VPD anomalies in HIST and ERA5 correlate at 0.73, and JJA VPD trends are similar in HIST, LENS2 and ERA5.
  Evidence for this premise (2)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  JJA VPD trends are similar between HIST, LENS2 and ERA5

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p12

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  Monthly VPD anomalies have a Pearson correlation of 0.73 between HIST and ERA5 (Fig. 1g), and JJA VPD trends are similar between HIST, LENS2 and ERA5 (Fig. 1h).

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p12
• HIST soil-moisture anomalies correlate with ERA5 at 0.56 monthly and 0.64 for JJA anomalies across the domain; all sources show a negative JJA trend since the 1980s.
  Evidence for this premise (2)

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  JJA soil moisture anomalies are reproduced with a higher accuracy (Pearson correlation = 0.64

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p11

  European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s — Circulation-storyline design and validation of nudged simulations

  The Pearson correlation between monthly 10-cm soil moisture anomalies in HIST and the first soil moisture layer in ERA5 (7 cm depth) is 0.56 across the study domain, with higher values in the west (Fig. 1e). JJA soil moisture anomalies are reproduced with a higher accuracy (Pearson correlation = 0.64; Supplementary Fig. 1), and all data sources show a negative JJA trend since the 1980s (Fig. 1f), but soils are generally drier in the fully coupled LENS2 than in the HIST simulation due to the precipitation bias of LENS2.

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w#unit-2-p11

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