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© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Research article
| 
11 May 2020
Research article |
| 11 May 2020
| 11 May 2020
The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño
Kurt C. Solander
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM, USA
Brent D. Newman
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM, USA
Alessandro Carioca de Araujo
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa Amazônia
Oriental, Manaus, Brazil
Holly R. Barnard
Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Z. Carter Berry
Department of Biology, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
Damien Bonal
Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UMR Silva, 54000
Nancy, France
Mario Bretfeld
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Kennesaw
State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
Benoit Burban
Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture (INRA), Alimentation et Environnement, UMR 0745 EcoFoG, Campus Agronomique, 97379 Kourou, France
Luiz Antonio Candido
Coordination of Environmental Dynamics, National Institute for
Amazonia Research, Manuas, Brazil
Rolando Célleri
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Sciences,
University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Jeffery Q. Chambers
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Bradley O. Christoffersen
Department of Biology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
Edinburg, TX, USA
Matteo Detto
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
Wouter A. Dorigo
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Brent E. Ewers
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Savio José Filgueiras Ferreira
Coordination of Environmental Dynamics, National Institute for
Amazonia Research, Manuas, Brazil
Alexander Knohl
Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
L. Ruby Leung
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Nate G. McDowell
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Gretchen R. Miller
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Maria Terezinha Ferreira Monteiro
Climate and Environment, National Institute for Amazonian Research,
Manaus, Brazil
Georgianne W. Moore
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, USA
Robinson Negron-Juarez
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Scott R. Saleska
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ, USA
Christian Stiegler
Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Javier Tomasella
Coordination of Research and Development, National Centre for
Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Cachoeira Paulista,
Brazil
Chonggang Xu
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM, USA
Data sets
Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) NASA https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?page=1&keywords=GLDAS
Short summary
We evaluate the soil moisture response in the humid tropics to El Niño during the three most recent super El Niño events. Our estimates are compared to in situ soil moisture estimates that span five continents. We find the strongest and most consistent soil moisture decreases in the Amazon and maritime southeastern Asia, while the most consistent increases occur over eastern Africa. Our results can be used to improve estimates of soil moisture in tropical ecohydrology models at multiple scales.
We evaluate the soil moisture response in the humid tropics to El Niño during the three most...
