From Surface to Ground Water: Water Availability Control on African Forests’ Productivity during Severe Meteorological Conditions

Nima Madani1, Nicholas Parazoo2, John Kimball3, Ashley Ballantyne4, Torbern Tagesson5, Lucas A Jones3, Rolf H Reichle6, Paul I Palmer7, Isabella Velicogna8, A. Anthony Bloom9, Sassan Saatchi10, Zhihua Liu4 and Geruo A11, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)UCI, Irvine, CA, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States