Trends in 20th century global rainfall interception as simulated by a dynamic global vegetation model: implications for global water resources

The Land‐surface Processes and eXchanges Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPX‐DGVM, one of several developments of the Lund–Potsdam–Jena (LPJ) model) is evaluated in terms of its interception component and used to simulate trends in 20th century global relative throughfall from natural vegetation. Mean global annual runoff is estimated to have been reduced by 163 ± 19 km 3 year −1 between 1901 and 2006 as a result of biophysical changes...