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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4835-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4835-2021
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From hydraulic root architecture models to macroscopic representations of root hydraulics in soil water flow and land surface models
Jan Vanderborght
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
IBG-3 (Agrosphäre), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52428 Jülich, Germany
Valentin Couvreur
Earth and Life Institute, University of Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Felicien Meunier
CAVElab – Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Andrea Schnepf
IBG-3 (Agrosphäre), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52428 Jülich, Germany
Harry Vereecken
IBG-3 (Agrosphäre), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52428 Jülich, Germany
Martin Bouda
Earth and Life Institute, University of Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Czech Republic
Mathieu Javaux
IBG-3 (Agrosphäre), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52428 Jülich, Germany
Earth and Life Institute, University of Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Short summary
Root water uptake is an important process in the terrestrial water cycle. How this process depends on soil water content, root distributions, and root properties is a soil–root hydraulic problem. We compare different approaches to implementing root hydraulics in macroscopic soil water flow and land surface models.
Root water uptake is an important process in the terrestrial water cycle. How this process...
