Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: Challenges and perspectives

K Van Looy, J Bouma, M Herbst, J Koestel… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

Estimation of saturated hydraulic conductivity with pedotransfer functions: A review

Y Zhang, MG Schaap - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (K s) is a singular parameter in earth system science. K s
not only governs the rate of flow of water under a hydraulic gradient as specified by the …

South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Bei**g's groundwater levels

D Long, W Yang, BR Scanlon, J Zhao, D Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Groundwater (GW) overexploitation is a critical issue in North China with large GW level
declines resulting in urban water scarcity, unsustainable agricultural production, and …

Digital soil map**: A brief history and some lessons

B Minasny, AB McBratney - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
Digital soil map** (DSM) is a successful sub discipline of soil science with an active
research output. The success of digital soil map** is a confluence of several factors in the …

Map** flood susceptibility in mountainous areas on a national scale in China

G Zhao, B Pang, Z Xu, J Yue, T Tu - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Mountainous terrain covers nearly half of China and is susceptible to floods, which can lead
to substantial losses of human life and property. Historical flooding records from government …

A global soil data set for earth system modeling

W Shangguan, Y Dai, Q Duan, B Liu… - Journal of Advances in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We developed a comprehensive, gridded Global Soil Dataset for use in Earth System
Models (GSDE) and other applications. The GSDE provides soil information, such as soil …

Hydrological cycle in the Heihe River Basin and its implication for water resource management in endorheic basins

X Li, G Cheng, Y Ge, H Li, F Han, X Hu… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Endorheic basins around the world are suffering from water and ecosystem crisis. To pursue
sustainable development, quantifying the hydrological cycle is fundamentally important …

Weighted recalibration of the Rosetta pedotransfer model with improved estimates of hydraulic parameter distributions and summary statistics (Rosetta3)

Y Zhang, MG Schaap - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) have been widely used to predict soil hydraulic parameters in
favor of expensive laboratory or field measurements. Rosetta (Schaap et al., 2001, denoted …

Excessive afforestation and soil drying on China's Loess Plateau

S Zhang, D Yang, Y Yang, S Piao… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Afforestation and deforestation as human disturbances to vegetation have profound impacts
on ecohydrological processes influencing both water and carbon cycles and ecosystem …

A global high‐resolution data set of soil hydraulic and thermal properties for land surface modeling

Y Dai, Q **n, N Wei, Y Zhang… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling land surface processes requires complete and reliable soil property information to
understand soil hydraulic and heat dynamics and related processes, but currently, there is …