At the scale of the Northern Hemisphere (25° to 90°N), the IPSL-simulated SWC shows a negative trend, whereas GLEAM SWC shows a weaker positive trend (fig.
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Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.
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During MAM, this imbalance between increasing precipitation and ET due to earlier phenology and LAI development results in a decreasing trend in both soil moisture (−0.11 ± 0.09 × 10 −4 m 3 m −3 year −1 ) and surface runoff (−0.08 ± 0.09 mm year −2 ).