@article{8d0fe730f92f4f2faec5884169e794f4,
title = "The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources",
abstract = "The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency and intensity on the distribution and timing of water availability. The development of effective adaptation strategies for these emerging threats to food and water security are compromised by limitations in our understanding of how natural and managed ecosystems are responding to changing hydrological and climatological regimes. This information gap is exacerbated by insufficient monitoring capabilities from local to global scales. Here, we describe how evapotranspiration (ET) represents the key variable in linking ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, and highlight both the outstanding science and applications questions and the actions, especially from a space-based perspective, necessary to advance them.",
keywords = "agriculture, climate, ecosystem, evapotranspiration, global, satellite, water resources",
author = "Fisher, {Joshua B.} and Forrest Melton and Elizabeth Middleton and Christopher Hain and Martha Anderson and Richard Allen and McCabe, {Matthew F.} and Simon Hook and Dennis Baldocchi and Townsend, {Philip A.} and Ayse Kilic and Kevin Tu and Miralles, {Diego D.} and Johan Perret and Lagouarde, {Jean Pierre} and Duane Waliser and Purdy, {Adam J.} and Andrew French and David Schimel and Famiglietti, {James S.} and Graeme Stephens and Wood, {Eric F.}",
note = "Funding Information: Three reviewers and the WRR Associate Editor provided useful suggestions that improved the manuscript. JBF was supported in part by NASA THP, SUSMAP, INCA, ECOSTRESS, and JPL internal investment. M.F.M. acknowledges support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. D.G.M. acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under grant agreement 715254 (DRY2DRY). This work was led out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017. The Authors.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/2016WR020175",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "53",
pages = "2618--2626",
journal = "Water Resources Research",
issn = "0043-1397",
publisher = "American Geophysical Union",
number = "4",
}