[HTML][HTML] Surface-energy-balance closure over land: a review

M Mauder, T Foken, J Cuxart - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2020 - Springer
Quantitative knowledge of the surface energy balance is essential for the prediction of
weather and climate. However, a multitude of studies from around the world indicate that the …

Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil‐plant‐atmosphere‐climate system

GG Katul, R Oren, S Manzoni, C Higgins… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The role of evapotranspiration (ET) in the global, continental, regional, and local water
cycles is reviewed. Elevated atmospheric CO2, air temperature, vapor pressure deficit (D) …

Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature

Y Su, C Zhang, P Ciais, Z Zeng, A Cescatti… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The direct biophysical effects of fine-scale tree cover changes on temperature are not well
understood. Here, we show how land surface temperature responds to subgrid gross tree …

Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

X Lian, S Piao, C Huntingford, Y Li, Z Zeng… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
The ratio of plant transpiration to total terrestrial evapotranspiration (T/ET) captures the role
of vegetation in surface–atmosphere interactions. However, its magnitude remains highly …

Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

RM Bright, E Davin, T O'Halloran, J Pongratz… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Following a land cover and land management change (LCMC), local surface temperature
responds to both a change in available energy and a change in the way energy is …

Historic and projected changes in vapor pressure deficit suggest a continental‐scale drying of the United States atmosphere

DL Ficklin, KA Novick - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Via air temperature increases and relative humidity changes, climate change will modify
vapor pressure deficit (VPD), which is an important determinant of water vapor and CO2 …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

PC Stoy, TS El-Madany, JB Fisher, P Gentine… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) respond differently to ongoing changes in climate,
atmospheric composition, and land use. It is difficult to partition ecosystem-scale …

Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

S Luyssaert, M Jammet, PC Stoy, S Estel… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Anthropogenic changes to land cover (LCC) remain common, but continuing land scarcity
promotes the widespread intensification of land management changes (LMC) to better …

Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

X Lee, ML Goulden, DY Hollinger, A Barr, TA Black… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Deforestation in mid-to high latitudes is hypothesized to have the potential to cool the Earth's
surface by altering biophysical processes,,. In climate models of continental-scale land …

Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data

Q Mu, FA Heinsch, M Zhao, SW Running - Remote sensing of Environment, 2007 - Elsevier
The objective of this research is to develop a global remote sensing evapotranspiration (ET)
algorithm based on Cleugh et al.'s [Cleugh, HA, R. Leuning, Q. Mu, SW Running (2007) …