Grassland aboveground net primary production (ANPP) increases linearly with precipitation in space and time, but temporal models relating time series of ANPP and annual precipitation for single sites show lower slopes and regression coefficients than are shown by spatial models. The analysis of several ANPP time series showed lags in the ecosystem response to increased water availability, which...

In this study, hydro-meteorological data collected from 1964 to 1976 on an approximately 5,000 ha predominantly forested coastal watershed (Turkey Creek) at the Francis Marion National Forest near Charleston, SC were analyzed to estimate annual evapotranspiration (ET) using four different empirical methods. The first one, reported by Zhang et al. (2001), that takes into account annual precipita...

recently, the most important topic in water management was to determine the effects of urban forests and green space on partitioning gross rainfall (gr) into the rainfall interception (i), stemflow (sf), and throughfall (tf). the main aim of this research was to quantify the seasonal variations [growing season (gs), and non-growing season (ngs)]) in i by individual fraxinus rotundifolia trees i...

Most models will attempt to extract losses (interception, surface storage, infiltration) from the input and build a runoff hydrograph using empirical curves or by routing the excess water. Even the simplest models generally involve many parameters to describe these processes. Some parameters are estimated from published values, and others are set based on past practice and calibration of the mo...

The effects of canopy evaporation and intensity smoothing during rain events on hillslope subsurface stormflow are poorly understood. While watershed manipulation experiments have suggested that these processes are important at long timescales, such processes may also be important in storm-timescale responses. Notwithstanding, there are few hillslopes for which both internal subsurface stormflo...

The scope of this study is to establish the parameters of the L-band (1.4 GHz) Microwave Emission of the Biosphere model (L-MEB) for grass covers, and to assess surface soil moisture retrievals in areas covered by grass. L-MEB parameters are key ancillary information for the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission (SMOS) retrieval algorithm that produces estimates of the surface soil moisture ...