Relationships between landscape, snowcover depletion, and regional weather and climate

Monitoring the variations of evapotranspiration due to land use/cover change in a semiarid shrubland

“…However, when the natural vegetation was cleared, the leaves and the branches were also removed, which made the shadowed soil exposed and enhanced the radiation absorbed by the soil, thereby increasing soil evaporation (Martens et al, 2000;Panferov et al, 2001). Moreover, the removal of leaves and branches and the disappearance of sand dunes both altered the land surface albedo, which could have directly altered the solar radiation absorbed by the land surface (Dirmeyer and Shukla, 1994;Greene et al, 1999), subsequently leading to the change in E T .…”

Monitoring the variations of evapotranspiration due to the land use/cover changes in a semiarid shrubland

“…However, when the natural vegetation was cleared, the leaves and the branches were also removed, which made the shadowed soil exposed and enhanced the radiation absorbed by the soil, thereby increasing soil evaporation (Martens et al, 2000;Panferov et al, 2001). Moreover, the removal of leaves and branches and the disappearance of sand dunes both altered the land surface albedo, which could have directly altered the solar radiation absorbed by the land surface (Dirmeyer and Shukla, 1994;Greene et al, 1999), subsequently leading to the change in E T . Some inconsistent results regarding the E T dynamics during land degradation process were reported.…”

Development of a coupled soil erosion and large‐scale hydrology modeling system

“…Tests of the VIC model at multiple locations, including a prairie grassland site in central Kansas [ Liang et al , 1994], forested watersheds in the Pacific Northwest [ Matheussen et al , 2000], and a high‐latitude wooded grassland in northern Scandinavia [ Bowling et al , 2003], have yielded consistently favorable comparisons between simulated and observed surface fluxes. Large‐scale hydrologic models have also been widely used to study hydrologic fluxes due to land use and climate change at regional scales [ Bonan , 1997; Copeland et al , 1996; Greene et al , 1999; Hendersen‐Sellers et al , 1993].…”