The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

Abstract 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…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• CI
  California Institute of Technology
• KA
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• IN
  Institut National Du Cancer
• JP
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• ER
  European Research Council

  Award: 715254 (DRY2DRY)