EPhysLab team has applied the 3D Lagrangian transport model FLEXPART during several years to identify which continental regions are affected by the moisture transport from the major oceanic sources (e.g. Gimeno et al., 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).
The original study published in Geophysical Research Letters entitled “On the origin of continental precipitation” (Gimeno et al., 2010) was highlighted as one of the most important geophysical papers published in 2010 by the AGU (3rd August EOS issue), and a feature paper of EOS was published (Gimeno et al., 2011) by invitation of the editors.
The relevance of the topic has resulted in the elaboration of other relevant scientific publications:
*) a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology invited by the Editor-in-Chief of Springer about "Ocean evaporation & precipitation"
*) a review paper in Review of Geophysics “Oceanic and Terrestrial Sources of Continental Precipitation“ (Gimeno et al., 2012)
*) a GRL paper "Influence of the intensification of the major oceanic moisture sources on continental precipitation" (Gimeno et al., 2013)
*) review paper in Ann. Rev. Environ. & Resources "Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events" (Gimeno et al., 2016)
* "Contribution of water-limited ecoregions to their own supply of rainfall" in Environmental Research Letters (Miralles et al., 2016)
* "A database of optimal integration times for Lagrangian studies of atmospheric moisture sources and sinks" in Scientific Data (Nieto and Gimeno, 2019)
*) a review paper in Earth Science Reviews "Recent progress on the sources of continental precipitation as revealed by moisture transport analysis" (Gimeno et al., 2020)
*) a npj Climate and Atmospheric Science "The growing importance of oceanic moisture sources for continental precipitation" (Gimeno et al., 2020)
*) a review paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment "The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere" (Gimeno et al., 2021)
*) "Oceanic versus terrestrial origin of El Niño Southern Oscillation–associated continental precipitation anomalies" in Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences (Sorí et al., 2021)
*) "Influence of teleconnection patterns on global moisture transport during peak precipitation month" in International Journal of Climatology (Vazquez et al., 2022)
*) a Nature Geoscience paper "Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport" (Cui et al., 2022)
*) a npj Climate and Atmospheric Science paper "Impacts of tropical cyclones on the global water budget" (Pérez-Alarcón et al., 2023)
*) Nature Comm. "Projected changes in atmospheric moisture transport contributions associated with climate warming in the North Atlantic" (Fernández-Álvarez et al., 2023)
*) "Vegetation Greenness Sensitivity to Precipitation and Its Oceanic and Terrestrial Component in Selected Biomes and Ecoregions of the World" in Remote Sensing (Stojanovic et al., 2023)
*) a global study for the world river basins in Science of The Total Environment "Oceanic and terrestrial origin of precipitation over 50 major world river basins: Implications for the occurrence of drought" (Sorí et al., 2023)
*) a npj Climate and Atmospheric Science paper "Land–atmosphere feedbacks contribute to crop failure in global rainfed breadbaskets" (Li et al., 2023)
*) a paper in Nature Water "Unravelling the origin of the atmospheric moisture deficit that leads to droughts" (Gimeno-Sotelo et al., 2024)
L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, A. Drumond, R. Castillo, R.M. Trigo (2013) , Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1443-1450, doi:10.1002/grl.50338
(see the complete List of Publications)