Sentences with phrase «soil water storage»
Our modeling exercise suggests that even with the same available soil water storage capacity, coarse - textured soils provide less constraint on simulated GPP and tree growth than fine - textured soils.
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«In areas with similar climate and soils, then there is potential for reducing the likelihood of flood generation based on increased soil water storage within a river's catchment.»
The available water (AW), i.e., precipitation minus evapotranspiration, represents the total water available for runoff, soil water storage change, and ground water recharge.
Whereas the corresponding precipitation variability can be described as a white noise stochastic process, power spectra of vertically integrated soil water exhibit significant redness on timescales of years to decades, since the predictability of soil water storage arises mostly from the integration of precipitation variability.
Our control simulation further suggests that decadal variations in soil water storage also affect vegetation and wildfire occurrences.
The first part of the paper (Sects. 2, 3) introduces the numerical model experiments conducted with the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) version 1.0.3 and a simple concept of soil water storage based on a stochastic process.
Our results demonstrate that skillful decadal predictions of soil water storage, carbon stock, and fire frequency are feasible with proper initialization of soil conditions.
The leading modes of simulated North American precipitation and soil water storage are characterized essentially by qualitatively similar meridional seesaw patterns associated with the activity of the westerly jet.
These schemes improve the representation of observed land hydrological processes such as runoff, evapotranspiration, and soil water storage (Niu and Yang 2007; Oleson et al. 2008).