Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity

AF Feldman, X Feng, AJ Felton, AG Konings… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more
intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger rainfall events and longer dry …

Land data assimilation: Harmonizing theory and data in land surface process studies

X Li, F Liu, C Ma, J Hou, D Zheng, H Ma… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Data assimilation plays a dual role in advancing the “scientific” understanding and serving
as an “engineering tool” for the Earth system sciences. Land data assimilation (LDA) has …

Soil moisture decline in China's monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

Y Wang, W Hu, H Sun, Y Zhao, P Zhang, Z Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Soil moisture (SM) is essential for sustaining services from Earth's critical zone, a thin-living
skin spanning from the canopy to groundwater. In the Anthropocene epoch, intensive …

Effects of vegetation roots on the structure and hydraulic properties of soils: A perspective review

T **ao, P Li, W Fei, J Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art review on the effects of vegetation roots on the
soil structure and soil hydraulic properties. After a thorough review of current studies, the …

Rewards, risks and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in water systems

CE Richards, A Tzachor, S Avin, R Fenner - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly proposed to address deficiencies across water
systems, which currently leave about 25% of the global population without clean water …

Conceptualizing future groundwater models through a ternary framework of multisource data, human expertise, and machine intelligence

C Zhan, Z Dai, S Yin, KC Carroll, MR Soltanian - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Groundwater models are essential for understanding aquifer systems behavior and effective
water resources spatio-temporal distributions, yet they are often hindered by challenges …

Responses of soil organic carbon to climate extremes under warming across global biomes

M Wang, S Zhang, X Guo, L **ao, Y Yang, Y Luo… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of more extreme climate conditions under global warming on soil organic carbon
(SOC) dynamics remains unquantified. Here we estimate the response of SOC to climate …

Global spatiotemporal trend of satellite-based soil moisture and its influencing factors in the early 21st century

C Peng, J Zeng, KS Chen, Z Li, H Ma, X Zhang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) plays a significant role in water, energy, and carbon cycles, and is a key
variable related to multiple sustainable development goals. The frequent occurrence of …

Remotely sensed soil moisture can capture dynamics relevant to plant water uptake

AF Feldman, DJ Short Gianotti, J Dong… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A frequently expressed viewpoint across the Earth science community is that global soil
moisture estimates from satellite L‐band (1.4 GHz) measurements represent moisture only …

Microplastics affect C, N, and P cycling in natural environments: Highlighting the driver of soil hydraulic properties

R Ma, Z Xu, J Sun, D Li, Z Cheng, Y Niu, H Guo… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
As microplastics (MPs) are organic polymers with a carbon-based framework, they may
affect nutrient cycling. Information regarding how MPs influence N, P, and C cycling and the …