TY - JOUR
T1 - The Future of Evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources
AU - Fisher, Joshua B.
AU - Melton, Forrest
AU - Middleton, Elizabeth
AU - Hain, Christopher
AU - Anderson, Martha
AU - Allen, Richard
AU - McCabe, Matthew
AU - Hook, Simon
AU - Baldocchi, Dennis
AU - Townsend, Philip A.
AU - Kilic, Ayse
AU - Tu, Kevin
AU - Miralles, Diego G.
AU - Perret, Johan
AU - Lagouarde, Jean-Pierre
AU - Waliser, Duane
AU - Purdy, Adam J.
AU - French, Andrew
AU - Schimel, David
AU - Famiglietti, James S.
AU - Stephens, Graeme
AU - Wood, Eric F.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Three reviewers and the WRR Associate Editor provided useful suggestions that improved the manuscript. This work was led out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4/10
Y1 - 2017/4/10
N2 - The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency and intensity on the distribution and timing of water availability. The development of effective adaptation strategies for these emerging threats to food and water security are compromised by limitations in our understanding of how natural and managed ecosystems are responding to changing hydrological and climatological regimes. This information gap is exacerbated by insufficient monitoring capabilities from local to global scales. Here, we describe how evapotranspiration (ET) represents the key variable in linking ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, and highlight both the outstanding science and applications questions and the actions, especially from a space-based perspective, necessary to advance them. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
AB - The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency and intensity on the distribution and timing of water availability. The development of effective adaptation strategies for these emerging threats to food and water security are compromised by limitations in our understanding of how natural and managed ecosystems are responding to changing hydrological and climatological regimes. This information gap is exacerbated by insufficient monitoring capabilities from local to global scales. Here, we describe how evapotranspiration (ET) represents the key variable in linking ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, and highlight both the outstanding science and applications questions and the actions, especially from a space-based perspective, necessary to advance them. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623044
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016WR020175/abstract
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017522729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/2016wr020175
DO - 10.1002/2016wr020175
M3 - Article
SN - 0043-1397
VL - 53
SP - 2618
EP - 2626
JO - Water Resources Research
JF - Water Resources Research
IS - 4
ER -
