1) The document describes a model that couples patterns of vegetation, soil, and climate to generate patterns of water balance and soil moisture distribution within a basin in New Mexico. 2) The model uses a stochastic process to represent rainfall events and calculates water losses through evaporation, transpiration, and leakage to determine soil water balance. 3) The authors use the model to simulate how changes in rainfall characteristics, like rate and mean depth, could impact vegetation patterns, landscape diversity, and the water balance components of evapotranspiration, leakage, runoff, and infiltration.