Abstract

The coupled dynamics of water, carbon and nutrient cycles in ecohydrological systems is forced by unpredictable and intermittent hydroclimatic fluctuations at different time scales. While modeling and long-term prediction of these complex interactions often requires a probabilistic approach, the resulting stochastic equations however are only solvable in special cases. To obtain information on the behavior of the system one typically has to resort to approximation methods. Here we discuss macroscopic equations for the averages and fluctuation-dissipation estimates for the general correlations between the forcing and the ecohydrological response for the soil moisture-plant biomass interaction and the problem of primary salinization and nitrogen retention in soils.

Citation

Porporato, Amilcare M (2017): Macroscopic behavior and fluctuation-dissipation response of stochastic ecohydrological systems (Invited). American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017.