High‐resolution soil moisture data reveal complex multi‐scale spatial variability across the United States

N Vergopolan, J Sheffield, NW Chaney… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture (SM) spatiotemporal variability critically influences water resources,
agriculture, and climate. However, besides site‐specific studies, little is known about how …

GEB v0. 1: a large-scale agent-based socio-hydrological model–simulating 10 million individual farming households in a fully distributed hydrological model

JA De Bruijn, M Smilovic, P Burek… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Humans play a large role in the hydrological system, eg by extracting large amounts of water
for irrigation, often resulting in water stress and ecosystem degradation. By implementing …

The benefits of using state‐of‐the‐art digital soil properties maps to improve the modeling of soil moisture in land surface models

C Xu, L Torres‐Rojas, N Vergopolan… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study assesses the added value of using emerging maps of soil properties to improve
surface soil moisture simulations using the HydroBlocks land surface model with different …

[HTML][HTML] A Review on Soil Moisture Dynamics Monitoring in Semi-Arid Ecosystems: Methods, Techniques, and Tools Applied at Different Scales

E Duarte, A Hernandez - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture (SM) plays a crucial role in land–atmosphere interaction systems, directly
influencing evapotranspiration, photosynthesis, and the water dynamics of the soil surface …

The drivers of hydrologic behavior in Brazil: Insights from a catchment classification

A Almagro, AA Meira Neto… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite hosting∼ 16% of the global freshwater and almost 50% of water resources in South
America, Brazilian catchment‐scale relationships between drivers and streamflow are still …

Towards an optimal representation of sub‐grid heterogeneity in land surface models

L Torres‐Rojas, N Vergopolan… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One of the persistent challenges of Land Surface Models (LSMs) is to determine a realistic
yet efficient sub‐grid representation of heterogeneous landscapes. This is particularly …

A Novel Method for Diagnosing Land–Atmosphere Coupling Sensitivity in a Single-Column Model

FM Hay-Chapman, PA Dirmeyer - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response of boundary layer properties and cloudiness to changes in surface
evaporative fraction (EF) is investigated in a single-column model to quantify the locally …

Investigating the response of land–atmosphere interactions and feedbacks to spatial representation of irrigation in a coupled modeling framework

P Lawston-Parker, JA Santanello Jr… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
The transport of water, heat, and momentum from the surface to the atmosphere is
dependent, in part, on the characteristics of the land surface. Along with the model physics …

A first attempt to model global hydrology at hyper-resolution

B van Jaarsveld, N Wanders… - Earth System …, 2025 - esd.copernicus.org
Global hydrological models are one of the key tools that can help meet the needs of
stakeholders and policy makers when water management strategies and policies are …

Spatial variation in catchment response to climate change depends on lateral moisture transport and nutrient dynamics

CM Stephens, LA Marshall, FM Johnson… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Future shifts in rainfall, temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) will impact hydrologic and
ecosystem behavior. These changes are expected to vary in space because water and …