Groundwater is a vital source of freshwater throughout the tropics enabling access to safe
water for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes close to the point of demand. The …

The community land model version 4.5 provides two ways for treating the vegetation cover
changes (a static versus an interactive) and two runoff schemes for tracking the soil moisture …

Core Ideas AMMA‐CATCH is a long‐term critical zone observatory in West Africa. Four sites
sample the sharp ecoclimatic gradient characteristic of this region. Combined …

Meteorological data are useful in many fields related to climate change studies and their use
often requires them to be continuous. To date, marginal distribution sampling (MDS), which …

Mitigating the global climate crisis and its consequences, such as more frequent and severe
droughts, is one of the major challenges for future agriculture. Therefore, identifying land use …

The scientific community requires long-term data records with well-characterized uncertainty
and suitable for modeling terrestrial ecosystems and energy cycles at regional and global …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is pivotal in the terrestrial water cycle in subhumid and tropical
regions. In the water cycle, the contribution of plant transpiration can be distinctively more …

Inland valleys are seasonally waterlogged headwater wetlands, widespread across western
Africa. Their role in the hydrological cycle in the humid, hard-rock-dominated Sudanian …

Ecosystem capacity studies for carbon sequestration and water extraction are largely
conditioned by Eddy Covariance (EC) measurement availability and quality. Our study aims …

This study aims at investigating whether the Integral Turbulence Characteristics (ITC) obey
the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) above a forest site in a Sudanian climate, and …