Abstract: Attention is focused on the dynamical coupling between the soil moisture and atmospheric processes, such as in the presence of a growing moist baroclinic wave. A simplified scheme, representing the mass and energy exchanges ...

Abstract: The coupled dynamics of soil moisture, transpiration, and assimilation are studied at the daily time scale by temporally upscaling the hourly time scale results obtained in a companion paper. The effects of soil and ...

Abstract: The governing equations of soil moisture dynamics, photosynthesis, and transpiration are reviewed and coupled to study the dependence of plant carbon assimilation on soil moisture. The model follows the scheme of the ...

Abstract: A simple model is developed to investigate the role of spatial dynamics in the soil?atmosphere system. The model is constructed by considering the mass and energy balance equations for soil and atmosphere, closed with a ...

Abstract: There have been numerous attempts to detect the presence of deterministic chaos by estimating the correlation dimension. The values of reported correlation dimension for various geophysical time series vary between 1.3 and ...

Abstract: Persistent and prolonged periods of dry or moist conditions are often evident in the interannual variability of continental-type climates This variability appears as fluctuations around several distinct and preferred ...