Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography

DR Legates, R Mahmood, DF Levia… - Progress in …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Soil moisture is a critical component of the earth system and plays an integrative role among
the various subfields of physical geography. This paper highlights not just how soil moisture …

Impacts of irrigation on a precipitation event during GRAINEX in the High Plains Aquifer Region

D Whitesel, R Mahmood, P Flanagan, E Rappin… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land use land cover change, including irrigation, impacts weather and climate. In this paper
a precipitation event that occurred on the morning of 23 July 2018 during the Great Plains …

Evaluation and improvement of the default soil hydraulic parameters for the Noah Land Surface Model

AS Kishné, YT Yimam, CLS Morgan, BC Dornblaser - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil hydraulic parameters used in estimating soil water and energy fluxes are included in a
lookup table in the Noah Land Surface Model (LSM). The purpose of the study was to …

Assessment of observed and model‐derived soil moisture‐evaporative fraction relationships over the United States Southern Great Plains

TW Ford, CO Wulff, SM Quiring - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between soil moisture (SM) and evaporative fraction (EF) is an important
component of land‐atmosphere interactions. Frequently, land‐atmosphere studies are …

Impacts of irrigation on dry season precipitation in India

S Sen Roy, R Mahmood, AI Quintanar… - Theoretical and applied …, 2011 - Springer
There is a lack of observed data-based studies examining the role of enhanced soil moisture
conditions (due to irrigation) on the prevailing precipitation. Therefore, in the present study …

Sensitivity of planetary boundary layer atmosphere to historical and future changes of land use/land cover, vegetation fraction, and soil moisture in Western Kentucky …

R Mahmood, R Leeper, AI Quintanar - Global and Planetary Change, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land use land cover (LULCC), vegetation fraction (FV), and soil
moisture affects land surface atmosphere interactions, characteristics of planetary boundary …

[HTML][HTML] A model-based assessment of potential impacts of man-made reservoirs on precipitation

J Winchester, R Mahmood, W Rodgers… - Earth …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Land-use land-cover change (LULCC) plays an important role in weather and climate
systems. Human modifications of land cover include building reservoirs and thus creating …

Sensitivity of MM5-simulated planetary boundary layer height to soil dataset: comparison of soil and atmospheric effects

H Breuer, F Ács, B Laza, Á Horváth… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2012 - Springer
The effects of two soil datasets on planetary boundary layer (PBL) height are analyzed,
using model simulations. Simulations are performed with the MM5 weather prediction …

Impacts of soil moisture content on simulated mesoscale circulations during the summer over eastern Spain

I Gómez, V Caselles, MJ Estrela - Atmospheric Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) version 6.0 has been used to
investigate the impact and influence of initial soil moisture distributions on mesoscale …

A comparison of the MM5 and the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System simulations for land–atmosphere interactions under varying soil moisture

A Suarez, R Mahmood, AI Quintanar… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A comparison between two mesoscale models, Colorado State University Regional
Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) version 4.4 coupled with the Land-Ecosystem …