Responses of soil moisture to climate change based on projections by the end of the 21st century under the high emission scenario in the ‘Huang-Huai-Hai Plain’ region of China
The impacts of climate change on the SSM in the ‘3H’ region of China are explored. Extreme climate scenarios are obtained based on projections of RCP8.5. The future maximal changes in SSM are revealed by applying the CNOP-P approach. The CNOP-P-type scenarios consider the changes in climate variability. The differences are mainly located in the semiarid region of the ‘3H’ region.