Abstract Forest restoration is increasingly applied as a climate change mitigation measure. Apart from sequestering carbon, the large-scale addition of trees on Earth may enhance global precipitation levels. Here we estimate effects forest potential by estimating its evaporation and simulating downwind effect moisture added to atmosphere. We find that maximum forestation would average increase ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Forest-oriented climate mitigation policies promote forestation as a means to increase uptake of atmospheric carbon to counteract global warming. Some have pointed out that a carbon-centric forest policy may be overstated because it discounts biophysical aspects of the influence of forests on climate. In extra-tropical regions, many climate models have shown that forests t...

A two-step attribution and causality diagnostic is designed by employing singular spectrum analysis to unfold the attributed climate time series into a trajectory matrix then subjected an empirical orthogonal function identify evolving driving forces, which can finally be related major modes through their independent frequencies wavelet analysis. Application results from arid drought-prone sout...