Soil hydrology in the Earth system

H Vereecken, W Amelung, SL Bauke… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

Global groundwater modeling and monitoring: Opportunities and challenges

LE Condon, S Kollet, MFP Bierkens… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater is by far the largest unfrozen freshwater resource on the planet. It plays a
critical role as the bottom of the hydrologic cycle, redistributing water in the subsurface and …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing uncertainty in process-based hydraulic modeling, exemplified in a semiarid Inner Mongolia steppe

Y Zhao, H Wang, B Song, P Xue, W Zhang, S Peth… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessing root sources of three uncertainties–parameterization of soil hydraulic
characteristics, boundary conditions, and estimation of source/sink terms–is a significant …

Critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress in terrestrial ecosystems

Z Fu, P Ciais, AF Feldman, P Gentine, D Makowski… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Plant water stress occurs at the point when soil moisture (SM) limits transpiration, defining a
critical SM threshold (θcrit). Knowledge of the spatial distribution of θcrit is crucial for future …

[HTML][HTML] Standardised soil profile data to support global map** and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2019)

NH Batjes, E Ribeiro… - Earth System Science …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) provides quality-assessed and standardised
soil profile data to support digital soil map** and environmental applications at broadscale …

Calibration‐free complementary relationship estimates terrestrial evapotranspiration globally

N Ma, J Szilagyi, Y Zhang - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our
understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current …

Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management

M Lessmann, GH Ros, MD Young… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread adoption of improved cropland management measures is advocated to
increase soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, thereby improving soil fertility and mitigating …

Root-induced changes of soil hydraulic properties–A review

J Lu, Q Zhang, AD Werner, Y Li, S Jiang, Z Tan - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Regional-scale hydrological investigations that involve vegetation change usually neglect
root-induced modification (RIM) of soil hydraulic properties (SHP). However, there is …

Confronting the water potential information gap

KA Novick, DL Ficklin, D Baldocchi, KJ Davis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water potential directly controls the function of leaves, roots and microbes, and gradients in
water potential drive water flows throughout the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum …

[HTML][HTML] Root zone soil moisture estimation with Random Forest

C Carranza, C Nolet, M Pezij, M van der Ploeg - Journal of hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate estimates of root zone soil moisture (RZSM) at relevant spatio-temporal scales are
essential for many agricultural and hydrological applications. Applications of machine …