Trends in Soil Moisture

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2010 report.

Global distribution of linear trends in annual mean volumetric soil moisture (percent change per year), 1950 to 2000. Regions with mean annual precipitation of less than 0.5 mm per day have been masked out. Credit: J. Sheffield and E.F. Wood, Princeton University (adapted from the Journal of Climate with permission from the American Meteorological Society).

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