Impact of Plant Functional Types on Coherence Between Precipitation and Soil Moisture: A Wavelet Analysis

Impact of Atmospheric Variability on Soil Moisture-Precipitation Coupling

It is now well-established that the chaotic nature of the atmosphere severely limits the predictability of weather, while the slowly varying sea surface temperature (SST) and land surface states can enhance the predictability of atmospheric variations through surfaceatmosphere interactions or by providing a boundary condition (e.g., Shukla 1993, 1998; Shukla et al. 2000; Graham et al. 1994; Kos...

Study on Relation between Insar Coherence and Soil Moisture

Coherence is an important parameter to measure InSAR data quality in repeat-pass interferometry and soil moisture change can cause de-correlation. Relation between coherence and soil moisture was examined in this paper by using the ERS-1 interferometry pairs on Cangzhou area for which there are some heavy rain between the acquisition dates of the two images. The soil moisture is obtained based ...

Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation.

Previous estimates of land-atmosphere interaction (the impact of soil moisture on precipitation) have been limited by a lack of observational data and by the model dependence of computational estimates. To counter the second limitation, a dozen climate-modeling groups have recently performed the same highly controlled numerical experiment as part of a coordinated comparison project. This allows...

Interactive effects between plant functional types and soil factors on tundra species diversity and community composition

Plant communities are coupled with abiotic factors, as species diversity and community composition both respond to and influence climate and soil characteristics. Interactions between vegetation and abiotic factors depend on plant functional types (PFT) as different growth forms will have differential responses to and effects on site characteristics. However, despite the importance of different...

Growth analysis of wheat and barley on different soil types