Acknowledgments This work has been supported by the Stockholm University strategic environmental research program Ekoklim and The Swedish Research Council Formas (project 2012-790).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

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Verrot, Lucile

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Lucile Verrot

Georgia Destouni

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Screening variability and change of soil moisture under wide-ranging climate conditions: Snow dynamics effects

Acknowledgments This work has been supported by the Stockholm University strategic environmental research program Ekoklim and The Swedish Research Council Formas (project 2012-790).Peer reviewe

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Screening variability and change of soil moisture under wide-ranging climate conditions : Snow dynamics effects

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Soil moisture influences and is influenced by water, climate, and ecosystem conditions, affecting associated ecosystem services in the landscape. This paper couples snow storage-melting dynamics with an analytical modeling approach to screening basin-scale, long-term soil moisture variability and change in a changing climate. This coupling enables assessment of both spatial differences and temporal changes across a wide range of hydro-climatic conditions. Model application is exemplified for two major Swedish hydrological basins, Norrstrom and Pitealven. These are located along a steep temperature gradient and have experienced different hydro-climatic changes over the time period of study, 1950-2009. Spatially, average intra-annual variability of soil moisture differs considerably between the basins due to their temperature-related differences in snow dynamics. With regard to temporal change, the long-term average state and intra-annual variability of soil moisture have not changed much, while inter-annual variability has changed considerably in response to hydro-climatic changes experienced so far in each basin.</p

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Destouni, Georgia,

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0583-y

Screening variability and change of soil moisture under wide-ranging climate conditions : Snow dynamics effects

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