Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites

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Main Author: Küçük, Çağlar
Publication Date: 2022
Other Authors: Koirala, Sujan, Carvalhais, Nuno, Miralles, Diego G., Reichstein, Markus, Jung, Martin
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Language: eng
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Summary: Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.
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spelling Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary SatellitesAfricaecohydrologyfractional vegetation covergeostationarywater limitationGlobal and Planetary ChangeEnvironmental ChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences(all)Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.Hydrological interactions between vegetation, soil, and topography are complex, and heterogeneous in semi-arid landscapes. This along with data scarcity poses challenges for large-scale modeling of vegetation-water interactions. Here, we exploit metrics derived from daily Meteosat data over Africa at ca. 5 km spatial resolution for ecohydrological analysis. Their spatial patterns are based on Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) time series and emphasize limiting conditions of the seasonal wet to dry transition: the minimum and maximum FVC of temporal record, the FVC decay rate and the FVC integral over the decay period. We investigate the relevance of these metrics for large scale ecohydrological studies by assessing their co-variation with soil moisture, and with topographic, soil, and vegetation factors. Consistent with our initial hypothesis, FVC minimum and maximum increase with soil moisture, while the FVC integral and decay rate peak at intermediate soil moisture. We find evidence for the relevance of topographic moisture variations in arid regions, which, counter-intuitively, is detectable in the maximum but not in the minimum FVC. We find no clear evidence for wide-spread occurrence of the “inverse texture effect” on FVC. The FVC integral over the decay period correlates with independent data sets of plant water storage capacity or rooting depth while correlations increase with aridity. In arid regions, the FVC decay rate decreases with canopy height and tree cover fraction as expected for ecosystems with a more conservative water-use strategy. Thus, our observation-based products have large potential for better understanding complex vegetation-water interactions from regional to continental scales.CENSE - Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e SustentabilidadeDCEA - Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do AmbienteRUNKüçük, ÇağlarKoirala, SujanCarvalhais, NunoMiralles, Diego G.Reichstein, MarkusJung, Martin2022-10-05T22:16:00Z2022-032022-03-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article29application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/144486eng1942-2466PURE: 46293159https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002730info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-05-22T18:05:47Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/144486Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T17:36:14.785605Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
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title Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
spellingShingle Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
Küçük, Çağlar
Africa
ecohydrology
fractional vegetation cover
geostationary
water limitation
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
title_short Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
title_full Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
title_fullStr Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
title_full_unstemmed Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
title_sort Characterizing the Response of Vegetation Cover to Water Limitation in Africa Using Geostationary Satellites
author Küçük, Çağlar
author_facet Küçük, Çağlar
Koirala, Sujan
Carvalhais, Nuno
Miralles, Diego G.
Reichstein, Markus
Jung, Martin
author_role author
author2 Koirala, Sujan
Carvalhais, Nuno
Miralles, Diego G.
Reichstein, Markus
Jung, Martin
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv CENSE - Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
DCEA - Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Küçük, Çağlar
Koirala, Sujan
Carvalhais, Nuno
Miralles, Diego G.
Reichstein, Markus
Jung, Martin
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Africa
ecohydrology
fractional vegetation cover
geostationary
water limitation
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
topic Africa
ecohydrology
fractional vegetation cover
geostationary
water limitation
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
description Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.
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