Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

Y Yang, ML Roderick, H Guo, DG Miralles… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation

K Zhang, JS Kimball… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

Z Wei, K Yoshimura, L Wang… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Even though knowing the contributions of transpiration (T), soil and open water evaporation
(E), and interception (I) to terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET= T+ E+ I) is crucial for …

Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites

JA Nelson, O Pérez‐Priego, S Zhou… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We apply and compare three widely applicable methods for estimating ecosystem
transpiration (T) from eddy covariance (EC) data across 251 FLUXNET sites globally. All …

Understanding interactions among climate, water, and vegetation with the Budyko framework

G Gan, Y Liu, G Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Budyko models provide a transparent framework for analyzing climate-catchment
interactions and therefore have been widely used to quantify the role of vegetation …

Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

PC Stoy, TS El-Madany, JB Fisher, P Gentine… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) respond differently to ongoing changes in climate,
atmospheric composition, and land use. It is difficult to partition ecosystem-scale …

Physics‐constrained machine learning of evapotranspiration

WL Zhao, P Gentine, M Reichstein… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating ecosystem evapotranspiration (ET) is important to understanding the global water
cycle and to study land‐atmosphere interactions. We developed a physics constrained …

Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review

P Gentine, JK Green, M Guérin… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The terrestrial carbon and water cycles are strongly coupled. As atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration increases, climate and the coupled hydrologic cycle are modified, thus …

How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water‐use efficiency compare?

BE Medlyn, MG De Kauwe, YS Lin, J Knauer… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The terrestrial carbon and water cycles are intimately linked: the carbon cycle is driven by
photosynthesis, while the water balance is dominated by transpiration, and both fluxes are …

A simple and objective method to partition evapotranspiration into transpiration and evaporation at eddy-covariance sites

X Li, P Gentine, C Lin, S Zhou, Z Sun, Y Zheng… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Separating evapotranspiration (ET) into evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) is challenging
but key for a better understanding and prediction of the hydrological cycle and plant water …