The significant worldwide increase in observed river runoff has been tentatively attributed to the stomatal "antitranspirant" response of plants to rising atmospheric CO(2) [Gedney N, Cox PM, Betts RA, Boucher O, Huntingford C, Stott PA (2006) Nature 439: 835-838]. However, CO(2) also is a plant fertilizer. When allowing for the increase in foliage area that results from increasing atmospheric ...

Christopher Potter (corresponding author) NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA Tel.: 650-604-6164 Fax: 650-604-468 E-mail: [email protected] John Shupe Peggy Gross Vanessa Genovese Steven Klooster California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, USA River discharge rates across all California’s watershed have been modeled using the NASA version of the Carnegie-Ames-Stanfo...

Aims In the midand high-latitude regions, three quarters of the land surface is covered by boreal conifer forests, and snow lasts for 6–8 months of the year. Correctly modeling surface energy balance and snowmelt at midand high-latitudes has a significant influence on climate and hydrological processes. However, the heterogeneous and clumped forest structure exerts important control over the ra...

Reducing non-point source phosphorus (P) loss to drinking water reservoirs is a main concern for New York City watershed planners, and modeling of P transport can assist in the evaluation of agricultural effects on nutrient dynamics. A spatially distributed model of total dissolved phosphorus (TDP) loading was developed using raster maps covering a 164-ha dairy farm watershed. Transport of TDP ...