Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Advances of coupled water-heat-salt theory and test techniques for soils in cold and arid regions: A review

X Zhang, C Shu, Y Wu, P Ye, D Du - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil salinization is a global problem that severely restricts agriculture as well as the
engineering and construction industry. Understanding water and salt transport laws is key to …

Theoretical and numerical analyses on hydro–thermal–salt–mechanical interaction of unsaturated salinized soil subjected to typical unidirectional freezing process

X Zhang, E Zhai, Y Wu, D Sun, Y Lu - International Journal of …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
The freezing process of salinized soil is a complex, dynamic, and interactive hydro–thermal–
salt–mechanical (HTSM) coupled physical phenomenon. In many recent studies, soil was …

Canopy effect caused by vapour transfer in covered freezing soils

S Zhang, J Teng, Z He, Y Liu, S Liang, Y Yao… - …, 2016 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Canopy effect in this paper refers to the phenomenon whereby moisture accumulates
underneath an impervious cover. Field observations reveal that the canopy effect can occur …

Effects of anthropogenic revegetation on the water and carbon cycles of a desert steppe ecosystem

L Du, Y Zeng, L Ma, C Qiao, H Wu, Z Su… - Agricultural and forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The anthropogenic revegetation for combating desertification in China has been a long-term
strategy that has induced shrub encroachment in desert steppe and regionally notable …

Liquid‐vapor‐air flow in the frozen soil

L Yu, Y Zeng, J Wen, Z Su - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate representing freeze‐thaw (FT) process is of great importance in cold region
hydrology and climate studies. With the STEMMUS‐FT model (Simultaneous Transfer of …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater and unsaturated zone evaporation and transpiration in a semi-arid open woodland

E Balugani, MW Lubczynski, L Reyes-Acosta… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Studies on evapotranspiration partitioning under eddy covariance (EC) towers rarely
address the separate effects of transpiration and evaporation on groundwater resources …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the effects of revegetated shrubs on fluxes of energy, water, and gross primary productivity in a desert steppe ecosystem using the STEMMUS …

E Tang, Y Zeng, Y Wang, Z Song, D Yu, H Wu… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Revegetation is one of the most effective ways to combat desertification and soil erosion in
semiarid and arid regions. However, the impact of the perturbation of revegetation on …

Disentangling the impact of event‐and annual‐scale precipitation extremes on critical‐zone hydrology in semiarid loess vegetated by apple trees

X Gao, H Wan, Y Zeng, X Shao, W Hu… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The extent and mechanisms by which precipitation extremes affect hydrological processes
in the critical zone (CZ) of loess possessing a thick unsaturated zone remains poorly …

Blending Satellite Observed, Model Simulated, and in Situ Measured Soil Moisture over Tibetan Plateau

Y Zeng, Z Su, R Van der Velde, L Wang, K Xu, X Wang… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
The inter-comparison of different soil moisture (SM) products over the Tibetan Plateau (TP)
reveals the inconsistency among different SM products, when compared to in situ …