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Francesco Giardina

@francescogiardina.bsky.social

Researcher at ETH Zurich focusing on plant-water interactions. Alumn at EPFL and Columbia University. Alpinist, yogi, dancer (he/him). #Ecophysiology #Climate #AI

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Francesco Giardina @francescogiardina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper out now! We show that groundwater is an important regulator of the spatial pattern of photosynthesis at the continental scale: www.nature.com/articles/s43... Many thanks to my coauthors @pierregentine.bsky.social, @jiangong-liu.bsky.social, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, Benjamin Stocker

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Francesco Giardina @francescogiardina.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In our latest paper, we found that most climate models overestimate plant water stress—especially in the Amazon. But is that really good news for a warming world? communities.springernature.com/posts/rethin... @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @ryanpad.bsky.social

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Rethinking Amazon water stress in Earth system models

Our analysis shows that Earth system models paint the Amazon as being under water stress more frequently than what satellite observations and flux-tower measurements suggest. Correcting this bias coul...

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Francesco Giardina @francescogiardina.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Can we trust Earth system models to locate and quantify land-surface water stress? www.nature.com/articles/s43... Thank you @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, @ryanpad.bsky.social, Benjamin Stocker and Dominik Schumacher

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Large biases in the frequency of water limitation across Earth system models - Communications Earth & Environment

CMIP6 Earth system models overestimate the frequency of water-limited conditions on land, by about 14% globally and 26% in the tropics, according to analyses using solar-induced fluorescence, satellit...

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