Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability have minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar River basin, Germany

Wang, Siyuan; Hrachowitz, Markus; Schoups, Gerrit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4011-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4011-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4011-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 28, issue 17

Research article

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03 Sep 2024

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2024

Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability have minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar River basin, Germany

Siyuan Wang, Markus Hrachowitz, and Gerrit Schoups

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4011-2024-supplement

Data sets

Data and code underlying the publication: Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability has minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar basin, Germany Siyuan Wang and Markus Hrachowitz https://doi.org/10.4121/922d30de-a26b-4c81-8644-ad036182239c

Index of /climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/more_precip/historical/ DWD https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/more_precip/historical/

Streamflow datasets in Germany BfG https://portal.grdc.bafg.de/applications/public.html?publicuser=PublicUser#dataDownload/Stations

Model code and software

Data and code underlying the publication: Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability has minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar basin, Germany Siyuan Wang and Markus Hrachowitz https://doi.org/10.4121/922d30de-a26b-4c81-8644-ad036182239c

Short summary

Root zone storage capacity (S_umax) changes significantly over multiple decades, reflecting vegetation adaptation to climatic variability. However, this temporal evolution of S_umax cannot explain long-term fluctuations in the partitioning of water fluxes as expressed by deviations ΔI_E from the parametric Budyko curve over time with different climatic conditions, and it does not have any significant effects on shorter-term hydrological response characteristics of the upper Neckar catchment.