Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Preprints |
| DOI | 10.22541/essoar.15005507/v1 |
| Title (Primary) | MOREDO: A differentiable hybrid framework for transferable diagnosis of active root-zone water across scales |
| Author | Blougouras, G.; Chen, X.; Brenning, A.; Kumar, R.
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| Source Titel | ESS Open Archive |
| Year | 2026 |
| Department | CHS |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Abstract | Water in the root zone links the terrestrial
water, carbon, and energy cycles, but only the part that ecosystems can
access and use controls vegetation's resilience to drought and its
feedbacks to climate. This water cannot be observed directly, and
existing soil-moisture products report the total root-zone water instead
of the fraction ecosystems draw on. Although this component can be
inferred in gauged basins by an ecohydrological model that inverts the
water balance, these basins cover only a small part of the land surface,
and therefore global estimates require generalizing what is learned
there to a continuous field over the entire land. We introduce MOREDO
(Multi-Observation Root-zone Ecohydrology DiagnOstic model), a
differentiable hybrid framework that couples a conceptual
ecohydrological model with a neural-network parameterization. The
network learns mappings from static environmental attributes to model
parameters, and the framework is trained end-to-end against observed
evapotranspiration, runoff, snow water equivalent, and terrestrial water
storage anomalies across more than one thousand basins. Because these
mappings depend only on globally available attributes, the basin-trained
model can be applied on a continuous global grid. In basins withheld
from training, MOREDO reproduces these four targets, and across the much
larger, unsampled grid it produces fluxes and storage dynamics that
remain regionally and seasonally consistent. Overall, MOREDO diagnoses
the ecosystem-accessible store and its actively used component across
the global land surface, turning information-rich but spatially sparse
basin observations into large-scale understanding of root-zone
ecohydrological dynamics that no observation captures directly. |
| Blougouras, G., Chen, X., Brenning, A., Kumar, R., Migliavacca, M., Reichstein, M., Jiang, S. (2026): MOREDO: A differentiable hybrid framework for transferable diagnosis of active root-zone water across scales ESS Open Archive 10.22541/essoar.15005507/v1 |
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