An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

S Fatichi, ER Vivoni, FL Ogden, VY Ivanov, B Mirus… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Process-based hydrological models have a long history dating back to the 1960s. Criticized
by some as over-parameterized, overly complex, and difficult to use, a more nuanced view is …

A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

Land–atmosphere interactions: The LoCo perspective

JA Santanello Jr, PA Dirmeyer… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Land–atmosphere (LA) interactions are a main driver of Earth's surface water and energy
budgets; as such, they modulate near-surface climate, including clouds and precipitation …

Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

CM Taylor, RAM de Jeu, F Guichard, PP Harris… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Land surface properties, such as vegetation cover and soil moisture, influence the
partitioning of radiative energy between latent and sensible heat fluxes in daytime hours …

Land‐atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over northern Europe during summer 2018

PA Dirmeyer, G Balsamo, EM Blyth, R Morrison… - AGU …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The 2018 drought and heatwave over northern Europe were exceptional, with
unprecedented forest fires in Sweden, searing heat in Germany and water restrictions in …

The terrestrial segment of soil moisture–climate coupling

PA Dirmeyer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
An index of the sensitivity of surface fluxes to soil moisture variations is defined that
elaborates on the correlation between soil moisture and fluxes to include the magnitude of …

Soil moisture‐temperature coupling: A multiscale observational analysis

DG Miralles, MJ Van Den Berg… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐atmospheric interactions are complex and variable in space and time. On average soil
moisture‐temperature coupling is expected to be stronger in transition zones between wet …

Soil moisture as an essential component for delineating and forecasting agricultural rather than meteorological drought

S Chatterjee, AR Desai, J Zhu, PA Townsend… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is a recurring, complex, and extreme climatic phenomenon characterized by
subnormal precipitation for months to years triggering negative impacts on agriculture …

Quantifying irrigation cooling benefits to maize yield in the US Midwest

Y Li, K Guan, B Peng, TE Franz… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is an important adaptation strategy to improve crop resilience to global climate
change. Irrigation plays an essential role in sustaining crop production in water‐limited …

Soil moisture-temperature feedbacks at meso-scale during summer heat waves over Western Europe

M Stéfanon, P Drobinski, F D'Andrea… - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
This paper investigates the impact of soil moisture-temperature feedback during heatwaves
occurring over France between 1989 and 2008. Two simulations of the weather research …