The influence of land cover on surface energy partitioning and evaporative fraction regimes in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

Land‐atmosphere interactions are important to climate prediction, but the underlying effects of surface forcing of the atmosphere are not well understood. In the U.S. Southern Great Plains, grassland/pasture and winter wheat are the dominant land covers but have distinct growing periods that may differently influence land‐atmosphere coupling during spring and summer. Variables that influence surface flux partitioning can change seasonally,...