The use of dynamic global vegetation models for simulating hydrology and the potential integration of satellite observations

Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) offer explicit representations of the land surface through time and have been used to research large-scale hydrological responses to climate change. These applications are discussed and comparisons of model inputs and formulations are made among and between DGVMs and global hydrological models. It is shown that the configuration of process representations and data inputs are what makes a given DGVM unique...