Vegetation-induced turbulence influencing evapotranspiration-soil moisture coupling: Implications for semiarid regions

Erfan Haghighi1,2, James W Kirchner3,4 and Dara Entekhabi2, (1)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland