Annual Variability in Summer Evapotranspiration and Water Balance at a Subarctic Forest Site

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 331-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Lafleur
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Daily Precipitation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Forest Site ◽  
Net Radiation ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Surface Moisture ◽  
Equilibrium Evaporation ◽  
Subarctic Forest ◽  
Single Regression

Evapotranspiration (ET) and precipitation were measured during five summers (1989-1993 inclusive) at a subarctic forest site near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Mean daily ET varied from 2.14-3.18 mm d−1 during the five summers, while mean daily precipitation (P) ranged from 1.46-3.15 mm d−1. Yearly variability in summer ET was most influenced by availability of surface moisture, then by atmospheric conditions (i.e. temperature), and least of all by net radiation. In four of the five years total summer ET exceeded P resulting in significant soil water deficits and in the other year summer ET and P were similar in magnitude. The use of equilibrium evaporation (EE) as a predictor of ET was explored. Separate relationships between ET and EE were computed for all five years. Three statistically dissimilar groups of equations were found: 1989/1990, 1991/ 1992, and 1993. A single regression equation describing all years is presented.

Choose you own scientific experiment: Triggering debris flows and flash floods

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thea Turkington
Keyword(s):  
Debris Flows ◽  
Flash Floods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Scientific Experiment

Landslides and flash floods result in many fatalities around the globe. Understanding what triggers these events is therefore vital, although how to approach this problem is not straight forward. After background information for the experiment and some guidelines, two options are presented to learn more about the triggers of debris flows: (A) using rainfall or (B) the atmospheric conditions. You can then choose the option that appears more useful and interesting to you (you can always go back and read the other experiment afterwards). The article then ends with a reflection on the results.

scholarly journals A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND DRAINAGE COMPONENTS OF THE SOIL WATER BALANCE

1987 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. P. MAULÉ ◽  
D. S. CHANASYK
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Gradient Method ◽  
Field Capacity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soil Water Balance ◽  
Moisture Loss ◽  
Moisture Extraction ◽  
Soil Moisture Status ◽  
Capacity Method

Two simple techniques for separating soil moisture loss into drainage and evapotranspiration for cropped conditions were compared. The study was conducted during May through September 1983 at Ellerslie, Alberta. One technique, the field capacity method, utilized soil tension at − 4 kPa to demarcate the cessation of drainage; the other technique, the gradient method, utilized changes in soil moisture status relative to fallow conditions, to mark the onset of moisture extraction by roots. Both methods estimated similar amounts of drainage and evapotranspiration for the barley plots. Application and thus proper evaluation of these two methods were limited as more than 83% of the total drainage occurred during a 3-wk period in which only the Penman method for estimating evapotranspiration could be used. Key words: Water balance, drainage, evapotranspiration, field capacity method, gradient method

Evolution of water balance in the genusDrosophila

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (13) ◽  
pp. 2331-2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen G. Gibbs ◽  
Luciano M. Matzkin
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Dehydration Tolerance ◽  
Cactophilic Drosophila ◽  
Adaptive Mechanisms ◽  
The World

SUMMARYFruit flies of the genus Drosophila have independently invaded deserts around the world on numerous occasions. To understand the physiological mechanisms allowing these small organisms to survive and thrive in arid environments, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of water balance in Drosophila species from different habitats. Desert (cactophilic) species were more resistant to desiccation than mesic ones. This resistance could be accomplished in three ways: by increasing the amount of water in the body, by reducing rates of water loss or by tolerating the loss of a greater percentage of body water (dehydration tolerance). Cactophilic Drosophila lost water less rapidly and appeared to be more tolerant of low water content, although males actually contained less water than their mesic congeners. However, when the phylogenetic relationships between the species were taken into account, greater dehydration tolerance was not correlated with increased desiccation resistance. Therefore, only one of the three expected adaptive mechanisms, lower rates of water loss, has actually evolved in desert Drosophila, and the other apparently adaptive difference between arid and mesic species (increased dehydration tolerance) instead reflects phylogenetic history.

scholarly journals Effects of Drugs and Excipients on Hydration Status

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Puga ◽  
Sara Lopez-Oliva ◽  
Carmen Trives ◽  
Teresa Partearroyo ◽  
Gregorio Varela-Moreiras
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Gastrointestinal Transit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hydration Status ◽  
Gastrointestinal Transit Time ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Water Elimination ◽  
Essential Nutrient ◽  
The Difference

Despite being the most essential nutrient, water is commonly forgotten in the fields of pharmacy and nutrition. Hydration status is determined by water balance (the difference between water input and output). Hypohydration or negative water balance is affected by numerous factors, either internal (i.e., a lack of thirst sensation) or external (e.g., polypharmacy or chronic consumption of certain drugs). However, to date, research on the interaction between hydration status and drugs/excipients has been scarce. Drugs may trigger the appearance of hypohydration by means of the increase of water elimination through either diarrhea, urine or sweat; a decrease in thirst sensation or appetite; or the alteration of central thermoregulation. On the other hand, pharmaceutical excipients induce alterations in hydration status by decreasing the gastrointestinal transit time or increasing the gastrointestinal tract rate or intestinal permeability. In the present review, we evaluate studies that focus on the effects of drugs/excipients on hydration status. These studies support the aim of monitoring the hydration status in patients, mainly in those population segments with a higher risk, to avoid complications and associated pathologies, which are key axes in both pharmaceutical care and the field of nutrition.

scholarly journals Technical Note: On the puzzling similarity of two water balance formulas – Turc–Mezentsev vs. Tixeront–Fu

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 2339-2350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vazken Andréassian ◽  
Tewfik Sari
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Mathematical Reasoning ◽  
Technical Note ◽  
The Other ◽  
Partial Differential ◽  
Mathematical Properties ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Abstract. This Technical Note documents and analyzes the puzzling similarity of two widely used water balance formulas: Turc–Mezentsev and Tixeront–Fu. It details their history and their hydrological and mathematical properties, and discusses the mathematical reasoning behind their slight differences. Apart from the difference in their partial differential expressions, both formulas share the same hydrological properties, and it seems impossible to recommend one over the other as more “hydrologically founded”: hydrologists should feel free to choose the one they feel more comfortable with.

scholarly journals Initial steps of aerosol growth

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 2553-2560 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kulmala ◽  
L. Laakso ◽  
K. E. J. Lehtinen ◽  
I. Riipinen ◽  
M. Dal Maso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosols ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Forest Site ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Curvature Effects ◽  
Atmospheric Nucleation ◽  
Condensational Growth ◽  
A Minor ◽  
20 Nm

Abstract. The formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols depend on several steps, namely nucleation, initial steps of growth and subsequent – mainly condensational – growth. This work focuses on the initial steps of growth, meaning the growth right after nucleation, where the interplay of curvature effects and thermodynamics has a significant role on the growth kinetics. More specifically, we investigate how ion clusters and aerosol particles grow from 1.5 nm to 20 nm (diameter) in atmospheric conditions using experimental data obtained by air ion and aerosol spectrometers. The measurements have been performed at a boreal forest site in Finland. The observed trend that the growth rate seems to increase as a function of size can be used to investigate possible growth mechanisms. Such a growth rate is consistent with a recently suggested nano-Köhler mechanism, in which growth is activated at a certain size with respect to condensation of organic vapors. The results also imply that charge-enhanced growth associated with ion-mediated nucleation plays only a minor role in the initial steps of growth, since it would imply a clear decrease of the growth rate with size. Finally, further evidence was obtained on the earlier suggestion that atmospheric nucleation and the subsequent growth of fresh nuclei are likely to be uncoupled phenomena via different participating vapors.

scholarly journals Understanding nighttime methane signals at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 6583-6606
Author(s):  
Santiago Botía ◽  
Christoph Gerbig ◽  
Julia Marshall ◽  
Jost V. Lavric ◽  
David Walter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stratification ◽  
Sensible Heat Flux ◽  
Source Location ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Net Radiation ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Mixing Ratios ◽  
Diurnal Patterns ◽  
Tall Tower

Abstract. Methane (CH4) atmospheric mixing ratio measurements are analyzed for the period between June 2013 and November 2018 at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). We describe the seasonal and diurnal patterns of nighttime events in which CH4 mixing ratios at the uppermost (79 m a.g.l.) inlet are significantly higher than the lowermost inlet (4 m a.g.l.) by 8 ppb or more. These nighttime events were found to be associated with a wind direction originating from the southeast and wind speeds between 2 and 5 m s−1. We found that these events happen under specific nighttime atmospheric conditions when compared to other nights, exhibiting less variable sensible heat flux, low net radiation and a strong thermal stratification above the canopy. Our analysis indicates that even at wind speeds of 5.8 m s−1 the turbulence intensity, given by the standard deviation of the vertical velocity, is suppressed to values lower than 0.3 m s−1. Given these findings, we suggest that these nighttime CH4 enhancements are advected from their source location by horizontal nonturbulent motions. The most likely source location is the Uatumã River, possibly influenced by dead stands of flooded forest trees that may be enhancing CH4 emissions from those areas. Finally, biomass burning and the Amazon River were discarded as potential CH4 sources.

Some detailed water balance studies of research catchments

1978 ◽  
Vol 363 (1712) ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Potential Evaporation ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Drought Period ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Neutron Probe ◽  
Future Management

Aspects of the water balance during the drought period 1975–76 are reported for the Institute of Hydrology’s experimental catchments in Cumbria, East Anglia, the Thames Valley and upland Wales. Summer (April–September) and winter (October–March) totals of precipitation, streamflow and potential evaporation during the drought were compared with mean values for seasons preceding it; where soil moisture was measured by neutron probe, losses from actual evaporation were also compared. Yield dropped proportionately less in relation to rainfall where catchments contained appreciable storage, such as the Cam catchment in East Anglia with its chalk–glacial drift aquifer, or the Wye and Severn catchments in upland Wales which contain storage areas of peat underlain with glacial drift. The stream draining the Oxford clay of the Ray catchment in the Thames valley, on the other hand, dried up entirely in the second summer of the drought. The paper suggests that the comparison of water yields from the Wye and Severn catchments, which are under hill pasture and coniferous forest respectively, gives results which have considerable bearing on the future management of water resources from upland areas when the aim of management is to maintain supplies of water even during periods of drought as extreme as the years 1975–76. The effect on reservoir opera­tion of neglecting to allow for change in land use is illustrated by a hypothetical example using an artificial 30 year streamflow sequence containing a drought year with very long return period.

Evaluation of High-Resolution Precipitation Products over Southwest China

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 2691-2712
Author(s):  
Yanbo Nie ◽  
Jianqi Sun
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Root Mean Square ◽  
Extreme Precipitation ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Daily Precipitation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Monthly Precipitation ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Mean Square Errors

AbstractThe evaluation of gridded high-resolution precipitation products (HRPPs) is important in areas with complex topography, because rain gauges that are unevenly and sparsely distributed over an area cannot effectively reflect the spatial variabilities of the precipitation and related extremes in detail. In this study, the applicability of six satellite-based precipitation products (TMPA 3B42V7, IMERG, GSMaP-Gauge, CMORPH-CRT, PERSIANN-CDR, and GPCP) and five gauge-based precipitation products (APHRODITE, CN05.1, GPCC-D, GPCC-M, and CRU) over southwest China from 1998 to 2016 is evaluated by performing a comparison with meteorological station observations. The results show that GPCC-M exhibits the best performances for annual, seasonal, and monthly precipitation, which is supported by the lowest root-mean-square errors (RMSEs) for annual and seasonal precipitation and the lowest normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) for monthly precipitation. According to the NRMSE and critical success index (CSI), CN05.1 outperforms the other HRPPs at detecting daily precipitation; however, CN05.1 tends to overestimate the frequencies of light precipitation and underestimate the frequencies of heavy precipitation, which is reflected by the probability density function (PDF) for daily precipitation. The bias ratio (BIAS) and extreme precipitation indices show that IMERG shows numerous advantages over the other HRPPs in detecting extreme precipitation and estimating the precipitation intensity. Such results are helpful for future research on precipitation/extremes and related hydrometeorological disasters that occur throughout southwest China.

scholarly journals An experimental study on premixed CNG/H2/CO2 mixture flames

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilker Yilmaz ◽  
Harun Yilmaz ◽  
Omer Cam
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gas Composition ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Swirl Number ◽  
Combustion Performance ◽  
Temperature Distributions ◽  
The City ◽  
Flame Behaviour

Abstract In this study, the effect of swirl number, gas composition and CO2 dilution on combustion and emission behaviour of CNG/H2/CO2 gas mixtures was experimentally investigated in a laboratory scale combustor. Irrespective of the gas composition, thermal power of the combustor was kept constant (5 kW). All experiments were conducted at or near stoichiometric and the local atmospheric conditions of the city of Kayseri, Turkey. During experiments, swirl number was varied and the combustion performance of this combustor was analysed by means of centreline temperature distributions. On the other hand, emission behaviour was examined with respect to emitted CO, CO2 and NOx levels. Dynamic flame behaviour was also evaluated by analysing instantaneous flame images. Results of this study revealed the great impact of swirl number and gas composition on combustion and emission behaviour of studied flames.

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