Preferential Hydrologic States and Tipping Characteristics of Global Surface Soil Moisture

• Published in: Water resources research Vol. 60; no. 4
• Main Authors: Sehgal, Vinit, Mohanty, Binayak P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2024
• Subjects: Arid lands; Arid zones; Aridity; Boreal forests; Climate and vegetation; Climate change; Climate models; Coexistence; Constraints; Coupling; Ecosystem assessment; Evapotranspiration; Moisture content; Plant water; Remote sensing; Scaling; Sensitivity analysis; SMAP; Soil; Soil moisture; soil moisture bimodality; soil moisture drydowns; soil moisture preferential states; Soil surfaces; soil water retention parameters; Spatial variations; Subhumid climates; surface soil moisture; tipping characteristics; Tundra; Variability; Vegetation; Water stress

A dynamic transition in soil hydrologic states through meteorological variability and terrestrial feedback governs soil‐vegetation‐climate (SVC) interactions, constrained by critical soil moisture (SM) thresholds. However, observational and scaling constraints limit critical SM threshold estimation...