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dc.contributor.authorAjinkya Khandare
dc.contributor.authorRaghu Murtugudde
dc.contributor.authorL Karthikeyan
dc.contributor.authorSubimal Ghosh
dc.contributor.otherCentre for Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
dc.contributor.otherCentre for Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
dc.contributor.otherCentre for Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India; Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
dc.contributor.otherCentre for Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India; Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-09T05:20:04Z
dc.date.available2025-10-09T05:20:04Z
dc.date.issued01-01-2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad893e
dc.identifier.urihttp://digilib.fisipol.ugm.ac.id/repo/handle/15717717/40968
dc.description.abstractSatellite-derived vegetation optical depth and soil moisture (SM) data reveal the critical role of the soil-vegetation continuum in storing rainwater during the Indian Summer Monsoon and supporting evapotranspiration (ET) during the dry non-monsoon season. During the non-monsoon drier period, the climatologically estimated spatial mean of ET exceeds precipitation input, a phenomenon known as the soil–vegetation capacitor effect, which is pivotal in maintaining ecosystem productivity. Notably, our analysis reveals significant variations in the capacitor period between croplands and forests, with croplands exhibiting a ∼77 d longer due to dual crop seasons influenced by regional precipitation. The well-recognized hysteresis curves, observed in magnetization and soil–water characteristic curves, highlight phenomena where a system’s state is influenced by its historical inputs or states and are integral to our findings. We report a previously undocumented seasonal hysteresis in the relationship between the evaporative fraction (EVF) and SM for Indian croplands and forests. We further found that the croplands SM-EVF relation exhibits a reversal in hysteresis in the case of root-zone SM. The surface SM-EVF hysteresis is not present in forests with large root depths and reduced soil evaporation due to high canopy shading, and yet it is present for the root-zone SM. With its reversal for croplands, the newly found hysteresis must be addressed in redefining the critical SM threshold to demarcate the energy and water-limiting regimes. It should be incorporated in the land surface modeling parameterization. Additionally, we observed hysteresis in the SM-gross primary productivity relationship across both land covers and soil profiles (surface and root-zone), underscoring the need to investigate such processes to consider their dynamics in future ecological and hydrological models.
dc.language.isoEN
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.subject.lccEnvironmental technology. Sanitary engineering
dc.titleHysteresis in seasonal land-atmospheric interactions over India and its characteristics across croplands and forests
dc.typeArticle
dc.description.keywordsterrestrial ecosystem productivity
dc.description.keywordsland-atmosphere interaction
dc.description.keywordssoil moisture
dc.description.keywordsevapotranspiration
dc.description.keywordshysteresis
dc.description.keywordssoil-vegetation continuum
dc.description.doi10.1088/1748-9326/ad893e
dc.title.journalEnvironmental Research Letters
dc.identifier.e-issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.oaioai:doaj.org/journal:0cdc9fdc2fb340cf8f495a2cd8d8ed8c
dc.journal.infoVolume 19, Issue 12


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