DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-409-2015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84921473673
论文题名: Using measured soil water contents to estimate evapotranspiration and root water uptake profiles-a comparative study
作者: Guderle M ; , Hildebrandt A
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2015
卷: 19, 期: 1 起始页码: 409
结束页码: 425
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Ecology
; Ecosystems
; Evapotranspiration
; Iterative methods
; Measurement errors
; Numerical methods
; Numerical models
; Soil moisture
; Soils
; Time series
; Uncertainty analysis
; Water content
; Ecosystem functioning
; Measurement frequency
; Measurement interval
; Measurement precision
; Measurement uncertainty
; Performance criterion
; Soil moisture measurement
; Synthetic experiments
; Soil surveys
; comparative study
; ecosystem function
; evapotranspiration
; grassland
; root system
; soil moisture
; soil water
; water budget
; water content
; water uptake
英文摘要: Understanding the role of plants in soil water relations, and thus ecosystem functioning, requires information about root water uptake. We evaluated four different complex water balance methods to estimate sink term patterns and evapotranspiration directly from soil moisture measurements. We tested four methods. The first two take the difference between two measurement intervals as evapotranspiration, thus neglecting vertical flow. The third uses regression on the soil water content time series and differences between day and night to account for vertical flow. The fourth accounts for vertical flow using a numerical model and iteratively solves for the sink term. None of these methods requires any a priori information of root distribution parameters or evapotranspiration, which is an advantage compared to common root water uptake models. To test the methods, a synthetic experiment with numerical simulations for a grassland ecosystem was conducted. Additionally, the time series were perturbed to simulate common sensor errors, like those due to measurement precision and inaccurate sensor calibration. We tested each method for a range of measurement frequencies and applied performance criteria to evaluate the suitability of each method. In general, we show that methods accounting for vertical flow predict evapotranspiration and the sink term distribution more accurately than the simpler approaches. Under consideration of possible measurement uncertainties, the method based on regression and differentiating between day and night cycles leads to the best and most robust estimation of sink term patterns. It is thus an alternative to more complex inverse numerical methods. This study demonstrates that highly resolved (temporally and spatially) soil water content measurements may be used to estimate the sink term profiles when the appropriate approach is used. © 2015 Author(s). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/78633
Appears in Collections: 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Friedrich Schiller University, Institute for Geosciences, Burgweg 11, Jena, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena, Germany
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Guderle M,, Hildebrandt A. Using measured soil water contents to estimate evapotranspiration and root water uptake profiles-a comparative study[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2015-01-01,19(1)