On the effects of temporal meteorological variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes across scales: A modeling approach

Climate varies across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and this variability affects and is affected by ecosystem responses. There is strong evidence from observations and climate model projections that due to anthropogenic influences, climate variability is expected to be significantly altered (e.g. scarcer and stronger rainfall events in arid places etc.). This will have an impact on the water and carbon cycles and thus on food production and security, timber production, flood management, irrigation practices etc.

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Author Gabriel G. Katul Civil and Environmental Engineering