Increased heat-wave frequency across the United States has led to the need for improved
predictability of heat-wave events. A detailed understanding of land–atmosphere …

When soil moisture (SM) content falls within a transitional regime between dry and wet
conditions, it controls evaporation, affecting atmospheric heat and humidity. Accordingly …

Understanding the critical soil moisture (SM) threshold (θcrit) of plant water stress and land
surface energy partitioning is a basis to evaluate drought impacts and improve models for …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a crucial quantity through which land surface conditions can
impact near‐surface weather and vice versa. ET can be limited by energy or water …

The transition of evapotranspiration between energy‐and water‐limitation regimes also
denotes a nonlinear change in surface water and energy coupling strength. The regime …

Land surface albedo measures the degree to which the sun's radiation is absorbed or
reflected, and thus can be highly influential in global climate trends, local weather …

Soil moisture is an essential climate variable of the Earth system. Understanding its
spatiotemporal dynamics is essential for predicting weather patterns and climate variability …

Land surface energetic partitioning between latent, sensible, and ground heat fluxes
determines climate and influences the terrestrial segment of land‐atmosphere coupling. Soil …

Ecosystem water-use efficiency (WUE) is defined as the ratio of carbon gain (ie, gross
primary productivity; GPP) to water consumption (ie, evapotranspiration; ET). WUE is …

The precipitation that falls on the continents defines the extent and nature of terrestrial
ecosystems and human activity in them, all of which are adapted to and maintained by …