A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

DG Miralles, P Gentine, SI Seneviratne… - Annals of the New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts and heatwaves cause agricultural loss, forest mortality, and drinking water scarcity,
especially when they occur simultaneously as combined events. Their predicted increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

JMC Denissen, AJ Teuling, AJ Pitman, S Koirala… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems are essential for food and water security and CO2 uptake. Ecosystem
function is dependent on the availability of soil moisture, yet it is unclear how climate change …

[HTML][HTML] The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes

M Jung, S Koirala, U Weber, K Ichii, F Gans… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Although a key driver of Earth's climate system, global land-atmosphere energy fluxes are
poorly constrained. Here we use machine learning to merge energy flux measurements from …

The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

JB Fisher, F Melton, E Middleton, C Hain… - Water resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes
in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency …

Calibration‐free complementary relationship estimates terrestrial evapotranspiration globally

N Ma, J Szilagyi, Y Zhang - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our
understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current …

The future of Earth observation in hydrology

MF McCabe, M Rodell, DE Alsdorf… - Hydrology and earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
In just the past 5 years, the field of Earth observation has progressed beyond the offerings of
conventional space-agency-based platforms to include a plethora of sensing opportunities …

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

EW Slessarev, Y Lin, NL Bingham, JE Johnson, Y Dai… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes
substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, soil pH is not an …

A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation

K Zhang, JS Kimball… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

Z Wei, K Yoshimura, L Wang… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Even though knowing the contributions of transpiration (T), soil and open water evaporation
(E), and interception (I) to terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET= T+ E+ I) is crucial for …