DYNAMIC WATER
Specialty: Eco-hydrology
Plant available water storage capacity is foundational to the amount of precipitation plants receive, yet this storage capacity is both uncertain and spatially variable. Describing the effect of uncertainty and variability across sites is normally computationally costly and complex to summarize. We developed a method that can efficiently describe the effect of all plant available water storage capacities on evapotranspiration in a single model run. In doing so, we untangle the complex non-linear interactions among climate, storage capacity, and evapotranspiration. We are now using this new method to gain insights into how storage capacity influences the partitioning of precipitation between plant water use and runoff and how this partitioning may change with climate.