College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
Plants and Ecosystems, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
David Martín Belda
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 82467, Germany
Groundwater sustains vegetation and regulates land-atmosphere exchanges, yet most Earth system models oversimplify its dynamics. Our study develops an integrated framework coupling a dynamic vegetation model with the three-dimensional hydrological model ParFlow to explicitly represent groundwater-vegetation interactions. The results provide evidence that groundwater flow strongly regulates water exchanges and provides a powerful tool to improve simulations of water cycles in Earth system models.
Groundwater sustains vegetation and regulates land-atmosphere exchanges, yet most Earth system...