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 …

A multi-benefit framework for funding forest management in fire-driven ecosystems across the Western US

KQ Seipp, T Maurer, M Elias, P Saksa, C Keske… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests across the Western US face unprecedented risk due to historic fire exclusion,
environmental degradation, and climate change. Forest management activities like …

[HTML][HTML] Climate elasticity of evapotranspiration shifts the water balance of Mediterranean climates during multi-year droughts

F Avanzi, J Rungee, T Maurer, R Bales… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Multi-year droughts in Mediterranean climates may shift the water balance, that is, the
partitioning rule of precipitation across runoff, evapotranspiration, and sub-surface storage …

Wildfire controls on evapotranspiration in California's Sierra Nevada

Q Ma, RC Bales, J Rungee, MH Conklin, BM Collins… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We used Landsat-based measures of annual evapotranspiration (ET) to explore the effects
of wildfires on vegetation water use across California's Sierra Nevada. Wildfires decreased …

Bedrock vadose zone storage dynamics under extreme drought: Consequences for plant water availability, recharge, and runoff

WJ Hahm, DN Dralle, M Sanders… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bedrock vadose zone water storage (ie, rock moisture) dynamics are rarely observed but
potentially key to understanding drought responses. Exploiting a borehole network at a …

How realistic are water‐balance closure assumptions? A demonstration from the southern sierra critical zone observatory and kings river experimental watersheds

M Safeeq, RR Bart, NF Pelak, CK Singh… - Hydrological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The water balance is an essential tool for hydrologic studies and quantifying water‐balance
components is the focus of many research catchments. A fundamental question remains …

A UAV-derived thermal infrared remote sensing three-temperature model and estimation of various vegetation evapotranspiration in urban micro-environments

L Feng, Y Liu, Y Zhou, S Yang - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
The large-scale and single-point observations on urban vegetation easily cause the difficulty
to quantitatively study the evapotranspiration of vegetation in urban micro-environments. In …

Valuing the benefits of forest restoration on enhancing hydropower and water supply in California's Sierra Nevada

H Guo, M Goulden, MG Chung, C Nyelele… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest restoration through mechanical thinning, prescribed burning, and other management
actions is vital to improving forest resilience to fire and drought across the Western United …

Using stakeholder‐based fuzzy cognitive mapping to assess benefits of restoration in wildfire‐vulnerable forests

M Eriksson, M Safeeq, T Pathak, BN Egoh… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the benefits provided by restoring overstocked forests is crucial to guiding
the choice of management actions, policy initiatives, and investments by beneficiaries, that …

Using ensemble machine learning algorithm to predict forest fire occurrence probability in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, India

SS Singh, C Jeganathan - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The escalating global threat of forest fires, driven by global warming, requires the
development of effective prediction systems to mitigate damages. This research focuses on …