Fig. 1: The 2022 European soil moisture drought.
From: Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought
a, The anomaly of the simulated JJA 2022 average soil moisture in units of s.d. of the JJA 1960–2021 distribution. The stippling indicates locations where 2022 was drier than any simulated summer in 1960–2021. b, The anomaly of the European total (over the box in a) JJA average soil moisture relative to 1960–2021 (Methods). c, The land area of Europe under severe drought, that is, under JJA average soil moisture anomaly below two s.d. of the 1960–2021 distribution. Simulations are based on the mHM.
