Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

This review surveys the basic theories, observational methods, satellite algorithms, and land
surface models for terrestrial evapotranspiration, E (or λE, ie, latent heat flux), including a …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Reduced evaporation due to dry soils can affect the land surface energy balance, with
implications for local and downwind precipitation. When evaporation is constrained by soil …

Land–atmosphere (LA) interactions are a main driver of Earth's surface water and energy
budgets; as such, they modulate near-surface climate, including clouds and precipitation …

With the increasing use of the term “flash drought” within the scientific community, Otkin et al.
provide a general definition that identifies flash droughts based on their unusually rapid rate …

Human land-use activities have resulted in large changes to the Earth's surface, with
resulting implications for climate. In the future, land-use activities are likely to expand and …

Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

This first paper of the two‐part series describes the objectives of the community efforts in
improving the Noah land surface model (LSM), documents, through mathematical …

Land surface properties, such as vegetation cover and soil moisture, influence the
partitioning of radiative energy between latent and sensible heat fluxes in daytime hours …