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Complementary relationship of evaporation and the mean annual water‐energy balance
Author(s) -
Szilagyi Jozsef,
Jozsa Janos
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/2009wr008129
Subject(s) - water balance , environmental science , evaporation , energy balance , potential evaporation , vegetation (pathology) , hydrology (agriculture) , water content , soil science , atmospheric sciences , precipitation , climate change , ecology , meteorology , geography , geology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology , biology
By combining the complementary relationship of evaporation with the coupled long‐term water‐energy balance of Porporato et al. (2004) in a Budyko‐type framework, one can, from atmospheric measurements alone, derive important ecosystem characteristics, such as the mean effective relative soil moisture and the maximum soil water storage, as well as predict changes in the rooting depth of vegetation as a response to climate variations.