Interdependence of climate, soil, and vegetation as constrained by the Budyko curve

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Gentine, Pierre ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^b   Lintner, Benjamin R ^c   Sivandran, Gajan ^d   Salvucci, Guido ^e  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER SUPPLY;

EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; OUT OF PHASE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE LAGS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROOTING ZONES; SEMIARID CATCHMENTS; SOIL WATER BALANCE; TRANSPIRATION EFFICIENCY; UNGAUGED BASINS; WATER BALANCE MODELS; WATER STRESS;

RUNOFF;

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOHYDROLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LANDSCAPE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATION BALANCE; SOIL TYPE; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER STRESS;

EID: 84867504508     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053492     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Allen, R. G., L. S. Pereira, D. Raes, and M. Smith (1998), Crop evapotranspiration-Guidelines for computing crop water requirements, FAO Irrig. Drain. Pap. 56, Food and Agric. Organ of the U. N., Rome.
2. Bhattachan, A., et al. (2012), Evaluating ecohydrological theories of woody root distribution in the Kalahari, PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33996, doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0033996.
3. Brooks, R., and A. Corey (1964), Hydraulic properties of porous media, Hydrol. Pap. 3, Colo. State Univ., Fort Collins.
4. Budyko, M. (1961), The Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface, Natl. Weather Serv., U. S. Dep. of Commer., Washington, D. C.
5. Caylor, K. K., P. D'Odorico, and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe (2006), On the ecohydrology of structurally heterogeneous semiarid landscapes, Water Resour. Res., 42, W07424, doi:10.1029/2005WR004683. (Pubitemid 44300490)
6. Dietrich, W. E., and J. Perron (2006), The search for a topographic signature of life, Nature, 439(7075), 411-418, doi:10.1038/nature04452. (Pubitemid 43152825)
7. Donohue, R. J., M. L. Roderick, and T. R. McVicar (2007), On the importance of including vegetation dynamics in Budyko's hydrological model, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 11(2), 983-995, doi:10.5194/hess-11-983-2007. (Pubitemid 46425715)
8. Donohue, R. J., M. L. Roderick, and T. R. McVicar (2010), Can dynamic vegetation information improve the accuracy of Budyko's hydrological model?, J. Hydrol., 390, 23-34, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.06.025.
9. Duan, Q., et al. (2006), Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): An overview of science strategy and major results from the second and third workshops, J. Hydrol., 320, 3-17, doi:10.1016/ j.jhydrol.2005.07.031.
10. Eagleson, P. S. (1978a), Climate, soil, and vegetation: 1. Introduction to water balance dynamics, Water Resour. Res., 14(5), 705-712, doi:10.1029/WR014i005p00705. (Pubitemid 10254952)
11. Eagleson, P. S. (1978b), Climate, soil, and vegetation: 2. The distribution of annual precipitation derived from observed storm sequences, Water Resour. Res., 14(5), 713-721, doi:10.1029/WR014i005p00713.
12. Eagleson, P. S. (1978c), Climate, soil, and vegetation: 3. A simplified model of soil moisture movement in the liquid phase, Water Resour. Res., 14(5), 722-730, doi:10.1029/WR014i005p00722.
13. Eagleson, P. (1982), Ecological optimality in water-limited natural soilvegetation systems: 1. Theory and hypothesis, Water Resour. Res., 18(2), 325-340, doi:10.1029/WR018i002p00325. (Pubitemid 13260628)
14. Eagleson, P., and T. Tellers (1982), Ecological optimality in water-limited natural soil-vegetation systems: 2. Tests and applications, Water Resour. Res., 18(2), 341-354, doi:10.1029/WR018i002p00341. (Pubitemid 13260629)
15. Farnsworth, R. K., E. S. Thompson, and E. L. Peck (1982), Evaporation atlas for the contiguous 48 United States, NOAA Tech. Rep. NWS 33, 26 pp., NOAA, Washington, D. C.
16. Feng, X., G. Vico, and A. Porporato (2012), On the effects of seasonality on soil water balance and plant growth, Water Resour. Res., 48, W05543, doi:10.1029/2011WR011263.
17. Fu, B. P. (1981), On the calculation of the evaporation from land surface [in Chinese], Chin. J. Atmos. Sci., 5, 23-31.
18. Gerrits, A. M. J., H. H. G. Savenije, E. J. M. Veling, and L. Pfister (2009), Analytical derivation of the Budyko curve based on rainfall characteristics and a simple evaporation model, Water Resour. Res., 45, W04403, doi:10.1029/2008WR007308.
19. Horton, R. (1933), The role of infiltration in the hydrologic cycle, Eos Trans. AGU, 14, 446-460.
20. Kerkhoff, A., S. Martens, and B. Milne (2004), An ecological evaluation of Eagleson's optimality hypotheses, Funct. Ecol., 18(3), 404-413, doi:10.1111/j.0269-8463.2004.00844.x. (Pubitemid 38751790)
21. Koster, R. D., and M. Suarez (1999), A simple framework for examining the interannual variability of land surface moisture fluxes, J. Clim., 12(7), 1911-1917, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1911:ASFFET>2.0.CO;2. (Pubitemid 29532509)
22. Laio, F., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe (2001), Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: Active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress-II. Probabilistic soil moisture dynamics, Adv. Water Resour., 24(7), 707-723, doi:10.1016/S0309-1708(01)00005-7. (Pubitemid 32593048)
23. Laio, F., P. D'Odorico, and L. Ridolfi (2006), An analytical model to relate vertical root distribution to climate and soil properties, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18401, doi:10.1029/2006GL027331. (Pubitemid 351147898)
24. Manabe, S. (1969), Climate and ocean circulation. I. Atmospheric circulation and hydrology of the Earth's surface, Mon. Weather Rev., 97(11), 739-774, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1969)097<0739:CATOC>2.3.CO;2.
25. Manfreda, S., T. M. Scanlon, and K. K. Caylor (2010), On the importance of accurate depiction of infiltration processes on modelled soil moisture and vegetation water stress, Ecohydrology, 3, 155-165.
26. Milly, P. (1994), Climate, soil-water storage, and the average annual waterbalance, Water Resour. Res., 30(7), 2143-2156, doi:10.1029/94WR00586. (Pubitemid 285274)
27. Milly, P., and K. Dunne (2002), Macroscale water fluxes: 2. Water and energy supply control of their interannual variability, Water Resour. Res., 38(10), 1206, doi:10.1029/2001WR000760.
28. Ol'dekop, E. M. (1911), On Evaporation From the Surface of River Basins, Iur'evskogo Univ., Tartu, Estonia.
29. Pilgrim, D., T. Chapman, and D. Doran (1988), Problems of rainfall-runoff modeling in arid and semiarid regions, Hydrol. Sci. J., 33(4), 379-400, doi:10.1080/02626668809491261. (Pubitemid 18654201)
30. Porporato, A., P. D'Odorico, F. Laio, L. Ridolfi, and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe (2002), Ecohydrology of water-controlled ecosystems, Adv. Water Resour., 25(8-12), 1335-1348, doi:10.1016/S0309-1708(02)00058-1. (Pubitemid 36000082)
31. Porporato, A., E. Daly, and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe (2004), Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change, Am. Nat., 164(5), 625-632, doi:10.1086/424970. (Pubitemid 39509012)
32. Potter, N. J., L. Zhang, P. C. D. Milly, T. A. McMahon, and A. J. Jakeman (2005), Effects of rainfall seasonality and soil moisture capacity on mean annual water balance for Australian catchments, Water Resour. Res., 41, W06007, doi:10.1029/2004WR003697. (Pubitemid 41004217)
33. Rigby, J. R., and A. Porporato (2006), Simplified stochastic soil-moisture models: A look at infiltration, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 10(6), 861-871, doi:10.5194/hess-10-861-2006.
34. Rodríguez-Iturbe, I., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, V. Isham, and D. R. Cox (1999), Probabilistic modelling of water balance at a point: The role of climate, soil and vegetation, Proc. R. Soc. A, 455, 3789-3805, doi:10.1098/rspa.1999.0477.
35. Rodríguez-Iturbe, I., A. Porporato, F. Laio, and L. Ridolfi (2001), Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: Active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress-I. Scope and general outline, Adv. Water Resour., 24(7), 695-705, doi:10.1016/S0309-1708(01)00004-5. (Pubitemid 32593047)
36. Salvucci, G. D. (2001), Estimating the moisture dependence of root zone water loss using conditionally averaged precipitation, Water Resour. Res., 37(5), 1357-1365, doi:10.1029/2000WR900336. (Pubitemid 32532658)
37. Salvucci, G., and D. Entekhabi (1994), Equivalent steady soil-moisture profile and the time compression approximation in water-balance modeling, Water Resour. Res., 30(10), 2737-2749, doi:10.1029/94WR00948. (Pubitemid 290093)
38. Schenk, H., and R. Jackson (2002), Rooting depths, lateral root spreads and below-ground/above-ground allometries of plants in water-limited ecosystems, J. Ecol., 90(3), 480-494, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2745. 2002.00682.x. (Pubitemid 34616947)
39. Schreiber, P. (1904), Uber die Beziehungen zwischen dem Niederschlag und der Wasserfuhrung der Flusse in Mitteleuropa, Z. Meteorol., 21(10), 441-452.
40. Sivapalan, M., M. A. Yaeger, C. J. Harman, X. Xu, and P. A. Troch (2011), Functional model of water balance variability at the catchment scale: 1. Evidence of hydrologic similarity and space-time symmetry, Water Resour. Res., 47, W02522, doi:10.1029/2010WR009568.
41. Sun, J., G. D. Salvucci, D. Entekhabi, and L. Farhadi (2011), Parameter estimation of coupled water and energy balance models based on stationary constraints of surface states, Water Resour. Res., 47, W02512, doi:10.1029/ 2010WR009293.
42. Troch, P. A., et al. (2009), Climate and vegetation water use efficiency at catchment scales, Hydrol. Processes, 23(16), 2409-2414, doi:10.1002/ hyp.7358.
43. Wang, D., and M. Hejazi (2011), Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human impacts on mean annual streamflow in the contiguous United States, Water Resour. Res., 47, W00J12, doi:10.1029/2010WR010283.
44. Yang, D., F. Sun, Z. Liu, Z. Cong, G. Ni, and Z. Lei (2007), Analyzing spatial and temporal variability of annual water-energy balance in nonhumid regions of China using the Budyko hypothesis, Water Resour. Res., 43, W04426, doi:10.1029/2006WR005224. (Pubitemid 46799532)
45. Yang, H., D. Yang, Z. Lei, and F. Sun (2008), New analytical derivation of the mean annual water-energy balance equation, Water Resour. Res., 44, W03410, doi:10.1029/2007WR006135. (Pubitemid 351628540)
46. Zhang, L., N. Potter, K. Hickel, Y. Zhang, and Q. Shao (2008), Water balance modeling over variable time scales based on the Budyko framework- Model development and testing, J. Hydrol., 360, 117-131, doi:10.1016/ j.jhydrol.2008.07.021.