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Simplicity may be the key to understanding soil moisture

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Soil moisture is a key regulator of temperature and humidity.

But efforts to model it involve dozens of poorly constrained parameters.

Different models tend to disagree about how soil moisture levels will change in a warming world.

Tara Gallagher and Kaighin A. McColl took a "radically simpler" approach and modeled soil moisture solely in terms of precipitation.

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