Complementary relationship of evaporation and the mean annual water-energy balance

Authors

Jozsef Szilagyi, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Janos Jozsa, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Citation

Szilagyi, J., and J. Jozsa (2009), Complementary relationship of evaporation and the mean annual water-energy balance, Water Resour. Res., 45, W09201, doi:10.1029/2009WR008129.

Comments

Copyright 2009 by the American Geophysical Union. Used by permission.

Abstract

By combining the complementary relationship of evaporation with the coupled long-term water-energy balance of Porporato et al. (2004) in a Budyko-type framework, one can, from atmospheric measurements alone, derive important ecosystem characteristics, such as the mean effective relative soil moisture and the maximum soil water storage, as well as predict changes in the rooting depth of vegetation as a response to climate variations.