Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly
underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of …

Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is an atmospheric modeling system
designed for both research and numerical weather prediction. WRF is an open-source …

Flash droughts refer to a type of droughts that have rapid intensification without sufficient
early warning. To date, how will the flash drought risk change in a warming future climate …

Anthropogenic warming is anticipated to increase soil moisture drought in the future.
However, projections are accompanied by large uncertainty due to varying estimates of …

The most accurate rainfall–runoff predictions are currently based on deep learning. There is
a concern among hydrologists that the predictive accuracy of data-driven models based on …

Assessing reliability of global models is critical because of increasing reliance on these
models to address past and projected future climate and human stresses on global water …

Destructive and costly flooding can occur when warm storm systems deposit substantial rain
on extensive snowcover,,,,–, as observed in February 2017 with the Oroville Dam crisis in …