Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought

LM Müller, M Bahn - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts. These
events, which can cause significant perturbations of terrestrial ecosystems and potentially …

Spatiotemporal characteristics and forecasting of short-term meteorological drought in China

Q Zhang, C Miao, J Gou, H Zheng - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Intense short-term meteorological drought may lead to rapid declines in soil moisture,
triggering flash drought that can cause major agricultural or socioeconomic damage …

A new integrated index for drought stress monitoring based on decomposed vegetation response factors

G Yin, H Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought is a complex process that usually stems from aberrant climatic conditions such as
precipitation deficits and temperature anomalies. Drought can pose a serious threat to …

Causes of missing snowmelt following drought

DA Lapides, WJ Hahm, DM Rempe… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water management in snowy mountainous regions hinges on forecasting snowmelt runoff.
However, droughts are altering snowpack‐runoff relationships with ongoing debate about …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping of snow water equivalent by a deep-learning model assimilating snow observations

G Cui, M Anderson, R Bales - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
To estimate snowpack water storage in mountain basins, this study presents a framework
that couples a deep-learning long short-term memory (LSTM) model and a zonal bias …

Locating hydrologically unsustainable areas for supporting ecological restoration in China's drylands

F Fu, S Wang, X Wu, F Wei, P Chen… - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
China has undertaken extensive ecological restoration (ER) projects since the late 1970s in
drylands, dominating the greening of drylands. The greening, especially ER‐induced, can …

Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California

FK Dwomoh, RF Auch, JF Brown… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The US State of California has experienced frequent drought events, hotter
temperatures and other disruptions to the climate system whose effects on ecosystems have …

MODIS-based modeling of evapotranspiration from woody vegetation supported by root-zone water storage

G Cui, W Guo, M Goulden, R Bales - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
As an important process regulating the water cycle, forest evapotranspiration (ET) also
reflects vegetation and moisture conditions in response to a changing environment. For …

Estimation of water budget components and its driving factors analysis in arid grassland

Y Chen, X Liu, C Zheng, Y Ma, W Gao, J He… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Clarifying the dependence of the grassland water budget change and its components on
environmental factors is significant for the sustainable development of dryland ecosystems …

Bedrock controls on water and energy partitioning

RS Ehlert, WJ Hahm, DN Dralle… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Across diverse biomes and climate types, plants use water stored in bedrock to sustain plant
transpiration. Bedrock water storage (Sbedrock), in addition to soil moisture, thus plays an …