An agenda for land data assimilation priorities: Realizing the promise of terrestrial water, energy, and vegetation observations from space

S Kumar, J Kolassa, R Reichle, W Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The task of quantifying spatial and temporal variations in terrestrial water, energy, and
vegetation conditions is challenging due to the significant complexity and heterogeneity of …

Quantifying and reducing uncertainty in global carbon cycle predictions: Lessons and perspectives from 15 years of data assimilation studies with the ORCHIDEE …

N MacBean, C Bacour, N Raoult… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting terrestrial carbon, C, budgets and carbon‐climate feedbacks strongly relies on
our ability to accurately model interactions between vegetation, C and water cycles, and the …

Quantifying the drivers of ecosystem fluxes and water potential across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in an arid woodland

SA Kannenberg, ML Barnes, DR Bowling… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dryland ecosystems occupy a vast swath of the terrestrial land surface and exert a sizeable
impact on the cycling of carbon and water globally. These biomes are characterized by …

Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations

MJ Baur, AD Friend, AFA Pellegrini - Nature Geoscience, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfire activity and the hydrological cycle are strongly interlinked. While it is well known that
wildfire occurrence and intensity are controlled by water availability, less is known about the …

An alternative AMSR2 vegetation optical depth for monitoring vegetation at large scales

M Wang, L Fan, F Frappart, P Ciais, R Sun, Y Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) retrieved from microwave observations has been found to be
useful to monitor the dynamics of the vegetation features at global scale. Particularly, many …

Temperature is likely an important omission in interpreting vegetation optical depth

M Zhao, V Humphrey, AF Feldman… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) satellite microwave retrievals provide significant insights into
vegetation water content and responses to hydroclimatic changes. While VOD variations are …

Soil moisture memory of land surface models utilized in major reanalyses differ significantly from SMAP observation

Q He, H Lu, K Yang - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Weather and climate forecast predictability relies on hydrometeorological processes
occurring at different time scales. However, evaluation of parameterizations of such …

Emerging methods to validate remotely sensed vegetation water content

AF Feldman - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐retrieved vegetation optical depth (VOD) has provided extensive insights into
global plant function (such as, carbon stocks, water stress, crop yields) because of VOD's …

Changed ecosystem stability in response to climate anomalies in the context of ecological restoration projects

D Dang, X Li, S Li, X Lyu, H Dou, M Li… - Land Degradation & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland ecosystems are fragile and under the context of climate change, the increased
frequency of short‐term climate variability will put them under additional stress, so the ability …

Satellite‐observed vegetation responses to intraseasonal precipitation variability

BL Harris, CM Taylor, GP Weedon… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is limited understanding of how vegetation responds to intraseasonal modes of
rainfall variability despite their importance in many tropical regions. We use observations of …