Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review

P Gentine, JK Green, M Guérin… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The terrestrial carbon and water cycles are strongly coupled. As atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration increases, climate and the coupled hydrologic cycle are modified, thus …

Dry deposition of ozone over land: processes, measurement, and modeling

OE Clifton, AM Fiore, WJ Massman… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dry deposition of ozone is an important sink of ozone in near‐surface air. When dry
deposition occurs through plant stomata, ozone can injure the plant, altering water and …

Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits

Z Fu, P Ciais, IC Prentice, P Gentine… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Both low soil water content (SWC) and high atmospheric dryness (vapor pressure deficit,
VPD) can negatively affect terrestrial gross primary production (GPP). The sensitivity of GPP …

Implementing plant hydraulics in the community land model, version 5

D Kennedy, S Swenson, KW Oleson… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Version 5 of the Community Land Model (CLM5) introduces the plant hydraulic
stress (PHS) configuration of vegetation water use, which is described and compared with …

Sustainable irrigation based on co-regulation of soil water supply and atmospheric evaporative demand

J Zhang, K Guan, B Peng, M Pan, W Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Irrigation is an important adaptation to reduce crop yield loss due to water stress from both
soil water deficit (low soil moisture) and atmospheric aridity (high vapor pressure deficit …

Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

PC Stoy, TS El-Madany, JB Fisher, P Gentine… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) respond differently to ongoing changes in climate,
atmospheric composition, and land use. It is difficult to partition ecosystem-scale …

Physics‐constrained machine learning of evapotranspiration

WL Zhao, P Gentine, M Reichstein… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating ecosystem evapotranspiration (ET) is important to understanding the global water
cycle and to study land‐atmosphere interactions. We developed a physics constrained …

When does vapor pressure deficit drive or reduce evapotranspiration?

A Massmann, P Gentine, C Lin - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing vapor pressure deficit (VPD) increases atmospheric demand for water. While
increased evapotranspiration (ET) in response to increased atmospheric demand seems …

Redefining droughts for the US Corn Belt: The dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit over soil moisture in regulating stomatal behavior of Maize and …

H Kimm, K Guan, P Gentine, J Wu, CJ Bernacchi… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Corn Belt, the world's biggest production region for corn and soybean
combined, is prone to droughts. Currently 92% of the US Corn Belt croplands are rainfed …

A simple and objective method to partition evapotranspiration into transpiration and evaporation at eddy-covariance sites

X Li, P Gentine, C Lin, S Zhou, Z Sun, Y Zheng… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Separating evapotranspiration (ET) into evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) is challenging
but key for a better understanding and prediction of the hydrological cycle and plant water …