Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: Challenges and perspectives

K Van Looy, J Bouma, M Herbst, J Koestel… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling

Y Fan, M Clark, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting
global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope‐scale terrain structures that …

Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models

S Fatichi, D Or, R Walko, H Vereecken… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most soil hydraulic information used in Earth System Models (ESMs) is derived from pedo-
transfer functions that use easy-to-measure soil attributes to estimate hydraulic parameters …

[图书][B] Forest dynamics, growth, and yield: A review, analysis of the present state, and perspective

H Pretzsch, H Pretzsch - 2009 - Springer
The introduction points out the very specific system characteristics of trees and forest stands
which determine the approach and methods to analyse and model forest stand dynamics …

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

JC Phillips, R Braun, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high‐performance simulation of
large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to hundreds of processors on high‐end parallel …

The sensitivity of North American terrestrial carbon fluxes to spatial and temporal variation in soil moisture: An analysis using radar‐derived estimates of root‐zone soil …

K Zhang, A Ali, A Antonarakis… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact of variation in root‐zone soil moisture (RZSM), a key
component of the Earth's hydrologic cycle and climate system, on regional carbon fluxes …

Terrestrial vegetation and water balance—hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

D Gerten, S Schaphoff, U Haberlandt, W Lucht… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Earth's vegetation plays a pivotal role in the global water balance. Hence, there is a need to
model dynamic interactions and feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and the water …

RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

WR Cotton, RA Pielke Sr, RL Walko, GE Liston… - Meteorology and …, 2003 - Springer
Summary¶ An overview of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is
presented. We focus on new developments in the RAMS physics and computational …

Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

D Medvigy, SC Wofsy, JW Munger… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Insights into how terrestrial ecosystems affect the Earth's response to changes in climate and
rising atmospheric CO2 levels rely heavily on the predictions of terrestrial biosphere models …