scholarly journals Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Aplicada, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

2017 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Victor L. Barradas
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Species Establishment ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
A Site

<p>The deforestation of a site for agriculture and/ or cattle raising purposes changes either microclimate and soil properties. These environmental changes can act as physical barriers which drastically limits tree species establishment in reforestation . From microclimatic point of view, the study of the energy balance plays a key role when the original environment is severely changed. The net energy in a site is mainly dissipated by latent and sensible heat fluxes which are associated to evapotranspiration and thermal regimes,<br />respectively. The analyses of these fluxes allow to design control systems to reduce the high evaporation rates and high temperatures registered in a deforested site. Energy balance, latent and sensible heat fluxes and other components are analysed, and some techniques to manipulate energy balance are also presented.</p>

scholarly journals Water tracks intensify surface energy and mass exchange in the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 2203-2219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Linhardt ◽  
Joseph S. Levy ◽  
Christoph K. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Surface Energy Balance ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Dry Valleys ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Net Radiation ◽  
Taylor Valley ◽  
The Antarctic

Abstract. The hydrologic cycle in the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) is mainly controlled by surface energy balance. Water tracks are channel-shaped high-moisture zones in the active layer of permafrost soils and are important solute and water pathways in the MDV. We evaluated the hypothesis that water tracks alter the surface energy balance in this dry, cold, and ice-sheet-free environment during summer warming and may therefore be an increasingly important hydrologic feature in the MDV in the face of landscape response to climate change. The surface energy balance was measured for one water track and two off-track reference locations in Taylor Valley over 26 d of the Antarctic summer of 2012–2013. Turbulent atmospheric fluxes of sensible heat and evaporation were observed using the eddy-covariance method in combination with flux footprint modeling, which was the first application of this technique in the MDV. Soil heat fluxes were analyzed by measuring the heat storage change in the thawed layer and approximating soil heat flux at ice table depth by surface energy balance residuals. For both water track and reference locations over 50 % of net radiation was transferred to sensible heat exchange, about 30 % to melting of the seasonally thawed layer, and the remainder to evaporation. The net energy flux in the thawed layer was zero. For the water track location, evaporation was increased by a factor of 3.0 relative to the reference locations, ground heat fluxes by 1.4, and net radiation by 1.1, while sensible heat fluxes were reduced down to 0.7. Expecting a positive snow and ground ice melt response to climate change in the MDV, we entertained a realistic climate change response scenario in which a doubling of the land cover fraction of water tracks increases the evaporation from soil surfaces in lower Taylor Valley in summer by 6 % to 0.36 mm d−1. Possible climate change pathways leading to this change in landscape are discussed. Considering our results, an expansion of water track area would make new soil habitats accessible, alter soil habitat suitability, and possibly increase biological activity in the MDV. In summary, we show that the surface energy balance of water tracks distinctly differs from that of the dominant dry soils in polar deserts. With an expected increase in area covered by water tracks, our findings have implications for hydrology and soil ecosystems across terrestrial Antarctica.

scholarly journals Energy balance of a snow cover and simulation of snowmelt in the western Tien Shan mountains, China

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma Hong ◽  
Liu Zongchao ◽  
Liu Yifeng
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Tien Shan ◽  
Net Radiation ◽  
Balance Approach ◽  
Mountain Environment ◽  
Incoming Energy ◽  
A Site ◽  
Energy Balance Approach ◽  
Tien Shan Mountains

The energy-balance approach was used to calculate snowmelt at a site in the mid-mountain zone of the western Tien Shan mountains. During a 19-day snowmelt period, the results showed that net radiation and sensible heat fluxes accounted for 76.9 and 23.1% of the incoming energy, while snowmelt and evaporation consumed 97.1 and 2.9% of the energy, respectively. Snowmelt calculated from the energy balance compares favourably with measured values, indicating the suitability of the energy-balance approach for estimating the rate of snowmelt in the mountain environment of the western Tien Shan.

scholarly journals A comparison of eddy-covariance and large aperture scintillometer measurements with respect to the energy balance closure problem

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1291-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Liu ◽  
Z. W. Xu ◽  
W. Z. Wang ◽  
Z. Z. Jia ◽  
M. J. Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Eddy Covariance ◽  
Energy Budget ◽  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Large Aperture ◽  
Large Aperture Scintillometer

Abstract. We analyzed the seasonal variations of energy balance components over three different surfaces: irrigated cropland (Yingke, YK), alpine meadow (A'rou, AR), and spruce forest (Guantan, GT). The energy balance components were measured using eddy covariance (EC) systems and a large aperture scintillometer (LAS) in the Heihe River Basin, China, in 2008 and 2009. We also determined the source areas of the EC and LAS measurements with a footprint model for each site and discussed the differences between the sensible heat fluxes measured with EC and LAS at AR. The results show that the main EC source areas were within a radius of 250 m at all of the sites. The main source area for the LAS (with a path length of 2390 m) stretched along a path line approximately 2000 m long and 700 m wide. The surface characteristics in the source areas changed with the season at each site, and there were characteristic seasonal variations in the energy balance components at all of the sites. The sensible heat flux was the main term of the energy budget during the dormant season. During the growing season, however, the latent heat flux dominated the energy budget, and an obvious "oasis effect" was observed at YK. The sensible heat fluxes measured by LAS at AR were larger than those measured by EC at the same site. This difference seems to be caused by the so-called energy imbalance phenomenon, the heterogeneity of the underlying surfaces, and the difference between the source areas of the LAS and EC measurements.

scholarly journals Energy balance in a renewal sugarcane area with fallow period and soybean cultivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e39
Author(s):  
Rubmara Ketzer Oliveira ◽  
Luciano Sobral Fraga Junior ◽  
Larissa Brêtas Moura ◽  
Debora Regina Roberti ◽  
Felipe Gustavo Pilau
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Latent Heat Flux ◽  
Sensible Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Rainfall Regime ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Energy Fluxes ◽  
Fallow Period

Brazil is the main sugarcane producer in the world, which is intended for various purposes, from food to power generation. Soybean cultivation in areas of sugarcane under renewal has been growing progressively in Brazil. Quantifying energy fluxes at different stages of this process is essential for better management. The work was carried out in Piracicaba city, with the objective of analyzing the behavior of energy fluxes and the closing of the energy balance in a sugarcane renewal area with a fallow period followed by soybean cultivation. The latent and sensitive heat fluxes were obtained with the “Eddy covariance” method. The closing of the energy balance in the fallow period with straw-covered uncovered and soybean-cultivated soil presented a correlation coefficient of 0.88, 0.78 and 0.71, respectively. In the period without cultivation, the sensible heat flux was predominant in relation to the latent heat flux, varying according to the rainfall regime. The presence of straw under the soil in the fallow period affected the latent heat flux. With soybean cultivation, the latent heat flux surpassed the sensible heat flux.

scholarly journals Consistency between hydrological model, large aperture scintillometer and remote sensing based evapotranspiration estimates for a heterogeneous catchment

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2095-2107 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Samain ◽  
G. W. H. Simons ◽  
M. P. Voogt ◽  
W. Defloor ◽  
N.-J. Bink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Land Surface Model ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Large Aperture

Abstract. The catchment averaged actual evapotranspiration rate is a hydrologic model variable that is difficult to quantify. Evapotranspiration rates – up till present – cannot be continuously observed at the catchment scale. The objective of this paper is to estimate the evapotranspiration rates (or its energy equivalent, the latent heat fluxes LE) for a heterogeneous catchment of 102.3 km2 in Belgium using three fundamentally different algorithms. One possible manner to observe this variable could be the continuous measurement of sensible heat fluxes (H) across large distances (in the order of kilometers) using a large aperture scintillometer (LAS), and converting these observations into evapotranspiration rates. Latent heat fluxes are obtained through the energy balance equation using a series of sensible heat fluxes measured with a LAS over a distance of 9.5 km in the catchment, and point measurements of net radiation (Rn) and ground heat flux (G) upscaled to catchment average through the use of TOPLATS, a physically based land surface model. The resulting LE-values are then compared to results from the remote sensing based surface energy balance algorithm ETLook and the land surface model. Firstly, the performance of ETLook for the energy balance terms has been assessed at the point scale and at the catchment scale. Secondly, consistency between daily evapotranspiration rates from ETLook, TOPLATS and LAS is shown.

scholarly journals Observations of daytime surface energy balance in cloudy tropical conditions at Ile-Ife, Nigeria

MAUSAM ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-366
Author(s):  
O. O. JEGEDE
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Surface Energy Balance ◽  
Cloud Amount ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Bowen Ratio ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Tropical Conditions

Daytime energy balance at the surface in cloudy tropical conditions for Ile-Ife; Nigeria (7°33'N, 4°34'E) is investigated based on a series of micrometeorological measurements performed in October/November of 1998. For the humid environment that it is (mixing ratio, 17 -25 g / kg), magnitudes of the latent heat flux were much larger than the values for the sensible heat. Of the morning hours the average value for the Bowen ratio obtained was 0.36, while for the afternoons it was 0.74. As the soil surface became dried up in the afternoons, magnitudes of both sensible heat and ground heat fluxes were found to be comparable.   Fluctuations in the magnitudes of the terms of the surface energy balance correlated well to the cloud amount, degree of soil wetness, air temperature and humidity. But of all these factors, the variation in the amount of cloudiness appeared most dominant.

scholarly journals LATENT AND SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES AND ENERGY BALANCE IN A MAIZE AGROECOSYSTEM

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1132-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI Yi-Jun ◽  
◽  
XU Zhen-Zhu ◽  
WANG Yun-Long ◽  
ZHOU Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sensible Heat

scholarly journals An evapotranspiration model self-calibrated from remotely sensed surface soil moisture, land surface temperature and vegetation cover fraction: application to disaggregated SMOS and MODIS data

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1781-1803
Author(s):  
Bouchra Ait Hssaine ◽  
Olivier Merlin ◽  
Jamal Ezzahar ◽  
Nitu Ojha ◽  
Salah Er-Raki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Surface Soil ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Surface Soil Moisture

Abstract. Thermal-based two-source energy balance modeling is essential to estimate the land evapotranspiration (ET) in a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. However, the use of thermal-derived land surface temperature (LST) is not sufficient to simultaneously constrain both soil and vegetation flux components. Therefore, assumptions (about either soil or vegetation fluxes) are commonly required. To avoid such assumptions, an energy balance model, TSEB-SM, was recently developed by Ait Hssaine et al. (2018b) in order to consider the microwave-derived near-surface soil moisture (SM), in addition to the thermal-derived LST and vegetation cover fraction (fc) normally used. While TSEB-SM has been successfully tested using in situ measurements, this paper represents its first evaluation in real life using 1 km resolution satellite data, comprised of MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) for LST and fc data and 1 km resolution SM data disaggregated from SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) observations. The approach is applied during a 4-year period (2014–2018) over a rainfed wheat field in the Tensift basin, central Morocco. The field used was seeded for the 2014–2015 (S1), 2016–2017 (S2) and 2017–2018 (S3) agricultural seasons, while it remained unploughed (as bare soil) during the 2015–2016 (B1) agricultural season. The classical TSEB model, which is driven only by LST and fc data, significantly overestimates latent heat fluxes (LE) and underestimates sensible heat fluxes (H) for the four seasons. The overall mean bias values are 119, 94, 128 and 181 W m−2 for LE and −104, −71, −128 and −181 W m−2 for H, for S1, S2, S3 and B1, respectively. Meanwhile, when using TSEB-SM (SM and LST combined data), these errors are significantly reduced, resulting in mean bias values estimated as 39, 4, 7 and 62 W m−2 for LE and −10, 24, 7, and −59 W m−2 for H, for S1, S2, S3 and B1, respectively. Consequently, this finding confirms again the robustness of the TSEB-SM in estimating latent/sensible heat fluxes at a large scale by using readily available satellite data. In addition, the TSEB-SM approach has the original feature to allow for calibration of its main parameters (soil resistance and Priestley–Taylor coefficient) from satellite data uniquely, without relying either on in situ measurements or on a priori parameter values.

scholarly journals Energy balance closure and advective fluxes at ADVEX sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 761-779
Author(s):  
Uta Moderow ◽  
Thomas Grünwald ◽  
Ronald Queck ◽  
Uwe Spank ◽  
Christian Bernhofer
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Heat Budget ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Energy Balance Closure ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Large Scatter ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Parallel Measurement

AbstractWhen measuring the energy balance at the earth’s surface using the Eddy covariance technique, the obtained budgets seldom produce a closed energy balance. The measurements often miss some of the energy fluxes. A possible reason is the neglect of non-turbulent surface fluxes of latent heat and sensible heat, i.e. advective fluxes of these quantities. We present estimates of advective latent and sensible heat fluxes for three different sites across Europe based on the ADVEX dataset. The obtained horizontal and vertical advective fluxes were site-specific and characterized by large scatter. In relative terms, the data indicated that the sensible heat budget was less affected by advection than the latent heat budget during nighttime; this is because vertical turbulent latent heat fluxes were very small or close to zero during the night. The results further showed that the additional energy gain by sensible heat advection might have triggered enhanced evaporation for two sites during nighttime. Accounting for advective fluxes improved the energy balance closure for one of the three ADVEX sites. However, the energy balance closure of the other two sites did not improve overall. A comparison with energy balance residuals (energy missed by the measurements without accounting for advection) indicated a large influence of systematic errors. An inspection of the energy balance for the sloped site of the ADVEX dataset underlined the necessity of slope-parallel measurement of radiation.

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