Soil moisture memory: State‐of‐the‐art and the way forward

M Rahmati, W Amelung, C Brogi, J Dari… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable of the Earth system. Understanding its
spatiotemporal dynamics is essential for predicting weather patterns and climate variability …

Observed positive vegetation-rainfall feedbacks in the Sahel dominated by a moisture recycling mechanism

Y Yu, M Notaro, F Wang, J Mao, X Shi, Y Wei - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Classic, model-based theory of land-atmosphere interactions across the Sahel promote
positive vegetation-rainfall feedbacks dominated by surface albedo mechanism. However …

Vegetation‐Climate Interactions on the Loess Plateau: A Nonlinear Granger Causality Analysis

D Kong, C Miao, Q Duan, X Lei… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we used a multiyear normalized difference vegetation index data set (1981–
2015), and corresponding data sets for observed climatic factors, to investigate vegetation …

Impacts of irrigation and vegetation growth on summer rainfall in the Taklimakan Desert

D Xu, Y Lin - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - Springer
In recent decades, a greening tendency due to increased vegetation has been noted around
the Taklimakan Desert (TD), but the impact of such a change on the local hydrological cycle …

Projecting water yield and ecosystem productivity across the United States by linking an ecohydrological model to WRF dynamically downscaled climate data

S Sun, G Sun, E Cohen, SG McNulty… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
Quantifying the potential impacts of climate change on water yield and ecosystem
productivity is essential to develo** sound watershed restoration plans, and ecosystem …

Isolating the observed influence of vegetation variability on the climate of La Plata River basin

D Chug, F Dominguez - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
This work aims to isolate and quantify the local and remote biogeophysical influences of
slowly varying vegetation variability on the climate of La Plata basin (LPB) in the austral …

Effects of vegetation fraction variation on regional climate simulation over Eastern China

Y Yan, J Tang, G Liu, J Wu - Global and Planetary Change, 2019 - Elsevier
Vegetation-atmosphere interaction is thought to have significant impacts on modulating
regional climate. The main purpose of this paper is to reveal the impact of vegetation change …

Validation of a statistical methodology for extracting vegetation feedbacks: focus on North African ecosystems in the Community Earth System Model

Y Yu, M Notaro, F Wang, J Mao, X Shi… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Generalized equilibrium feedback assessment (GEFA) is a potentially valuable multivariate
statistical tool for extracting vegetation feedbacks to the atmosphere in either observations or …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of cropland expansion on temperature extremes in western India from 1982 to 2015

J Liu, W Shen, Y He - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
India has experienced extensive land cover and land use change (LCLUC). However, there
is still limited empirical research regarding the impact of LCLUC on climate extremes in …

Elucidating observed land surface feedbacks across sub-Saharan Africa

M Notaro, F Wang, Y Yu - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This study examines the role of terrestrial forcings on the regional climate of sub-Saharan
Africa through the application of a multivariate statistical method, stepwise generalized …