Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

This article summarizes the changes in landscape structure because of human land
management over the last several centuries, and using observed and modeled data …

Most soil hydraulic information used in Earth System Models (ESMs) is derived from pedo-
transfer functions that use easy-to-measure soil attributes to estimate hydraulic parameters …

Essential climate variables such as LAI or FAPAR are required for the monitoring,
understanding and modeling of land surfaces at the global scale. While several products …

This paper addresses and documents a number of issues related to the implementation of
an advanced land surface–hydrology model in the Penn State–NCAR fifth-generation …

A Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) has been developed. Its purpose is to
ingest satellite-and ground-based observational data products, using advanced land surface …

A generalization of the single soil layer variable infiltration capacity (VIC) land surface
hydrological model previously implemented in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory …

The purpose of developing an integrated wind-erosion modelling system (IWEMS) is to
produce quantitative predictions of wind erosion on scales from local to global. The system …

Atmospheric boundary-layer dynamics over heterogeneous surfaces is significant to a wide
array of geophysical and engineering applications. Yet, despite over five decades of intense …

Twenty years have passed since the first German-language edition of this book was
published. Subsequently, parallel German-and English-language editions were produced in …