ERA5 overestimates land drying trend from 1980 to 2023 by more than 100

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; School of Geography & Environmental Science/School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China. Electronic address: kcwang@pku.edu.cn.
• ² Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
• ³ Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Berkshire RG6 6BB, UK.
• ⁴ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁵ Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
• ⁶ Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
• ⁸ European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading RG2 9AX, UK.