Alexandra G. Konings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a metric of soil moisture memory and use a full year of global observations from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission to show that surface soil moisture, a storage believed to make up less than 0.001% of the global freshwater budget by volume, and equivalent to an, on average, 8mm thin layer of water covering all land surfaces.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that diversity in the hydraulic traits of trees mediates ecosystem resilience to drought and is likely to have an important role in future ecosystem–atmosphere feedback effects in a changing climate.

TL;DR: In this paper, Extended Triple Collocation (ETC) is used to estimate the root-mean-square-error (RMSE), using observations from three mutually independent, error-prone measurement systems.

TL;DR: This study defines a metric for the degree of isohydricity at the ecosystem scale in analogy with a recent metric introduced at the species level based on diurnal variations in microwave vegetation optical depth (VOD), which is directly related to leaf water potential.

TL;DR: In this paper, remote-sensing data reveal that productivity is more sensitive to atmospheric moisture than precipitation deficits, especially in grasslands where plants loosely regulate water use and vary in their regulation of water use.