Soil water

Water in the soil, also known as soil moisture (definition to be elaborated)

Also see green water

Publications:

• Global root zone storage capacity from satellite-based evaporation (2016)
  • reduces the dependency on soil and rooting depth data of poor resolution
• Potential future changes in water limitations of the terrestrial biosphere (2007)
  • Explores the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment and climate change on soil moisture and biome-level water limitation using a dynamic global vegetation and water balance model forced by five different scenarios of change in temperature, precipitation, radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration, all based on the same IS92a emission scenario
  • Biome level water limitation is defined as the degree to which transpiration and photosynthesis are co-limited by soil water shortage (high values indicate low water limitation).

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