Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

Y Yang, ML Roderick, H Guo, DG Miralles… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

Modeling Post‐Wildfire Hydrologic Response: Review and Future Directions for Applications of Physically Based Distributed Simulation

BA Ebel, ZM Shephard, MA Walvoord… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which
include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly …

Mega forest fires intensify flood magnitudes in southeast Australia

Z Xu, Y Zhang, G Blöschl, S Piao - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent forest fires potentially intensify flood hazards. However, forest fire amplification of
floods is not well understood at a large scale due to the complex compound impacts of forest …

Wildfire-induced shifts in groundwater discharge to streams identified with paired air and stream water temperature analyses

DM Rey, MA Briggs, MA Walvoord, BA Ebel - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Within the western United States, increasingly severe and frequent wildfires may
alter the magnitude, timing, and quality of water exported from burned areas by streams …

Linking fire-induced evapotranspiration shifts to streamflow magnitude and timing in the western United States

NM Collar, S Saxe, BA Ebel, KS Boden, AJ Rust… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of wildfire on water availability is a critical issue in the western United States.
Because actual evapotranspiration (ETa) constitutes the largest loss in the terrestrial water …

Hydrologic responses to wildfires in western Oregon, USA

H Kang, RP Cole, L Miralha, JE Compton… - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires can dramatically alter vegetation cover and soil properties across large scales,
resulting in substantial shifts in runoff generation, streamflow, and water quality. In …

Unique challenges posed by fire disturbance to water supply management and transfer agreements in a headwaters region

NM Collar, TA Earles - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
As a headwaters region, Colorado is a critical source of water for surrounding states and
Mexico. But fuel densification and shifts in hydrometeorological processes, such as climate …

Hydrologic recovery after wildfire: A framework of approaches, metrics, criteria, trajectories, and timescales

BA Ebel, JW Wagenbrenner, AM Kinoshita… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - sciendo.com
Deviations in hydrologic processes due to wildfire can alter streamflows across the
hydrograph, spanning peak flows to low flows. Fire-enhanced changes in hydrologic …

Improving Fire Severity Analysis in Mediterranean Environments: A Comparative Study of eeMETRIC and SSEBop Landsat-Based Evapotranspiration Models

C Quintano, A Fernández-Manso… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Wildfires represent a significant threat to both ecosystems and human assets in
Mediterranean countries, where fire occurrence is frequent and often devastating. Accurate …

Increasing cloud coverage deteriorates evapotranspiration estimating accuracy from satellite, reanalysis and land surface models over East Asia

Y Wang, J Hu, R Li, B Song… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) can be affected by cloud change, while cloud‐
induced bias errors in ET change remain poorly understood. Here we evaluated seven ET …