Impact of initial soil moisture anomalies on climate mean and extremes over Asia

Impact of Soil Moisture on Crop Yields over Brazilian Semiarid

The objective of this work was to investigate the relationship between soil water content and rainfall with rice, beans, cassava and corn yields in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil. Precipitation and modeled soil water content were compared to yields recorded at the county levels in this region. The results were also integrated over the area of the nine States that lie within the officia...

CMIP 5 Projected Soil Moisture Changes over South Asia

Soil moisture is the vital component of the hydrological cycle and its variability is largely uncertain in the upcoming decades. In this paper the future projections of soil moisture changes over South Asia have been analyzed on both annual and seasonal basis from 2020-2050. The comparison of 24 CMIP5 (Coupled Model Inter comparison Project Phase 5) models with GLDAS (Global Lad Data Assimilati...

Estimating spatial mean soil moisture

Estimating spatial mean root-zone soil moisture from point-scale observations A. J. Teuling, R. Uijlenhoet, F. Hupet, E. E. van Loon, and P. A. Troch Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Department of Environmental Sciences and Land Use Planning, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Institute for Biodiversit...

Modeling effect of initial soil moisture on sorptivity and infiltration

Soil Moisture as an Indicator of Weather Extremes

[1] In this paper, we investigate floods and droughts in the Upper Mississippi basin over a 50-year period (1950–1999) using a hydrological model (Variable Infiltration Capacity Model – 3 Layer). Simulations have been carried out between January 1950 and December 1999 at daily timestep and 1/8 spatial resolution for the water budget and at hourly time-step and 1 spatial resolution for the energ...