Evaluating eddy covariance cotton ET measurements in an advective environment with large weighing lysimeters |
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| Authors: | José Luis Chávez Terry A Howell Karen S Copeland |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, 1372 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372, USA;(2) Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, P.O. Drawer 10, Bushland, TX 79012, USA |
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| Abstract: | Eddy covariance (EC) systems are being used to assess the accuracy of remote sensing methods in mapping surface sensible and
latent heat fluxes and evapotranspiration (ET) from local to regional scales, and in crop coefficient development. Therefore,
the objective was to evaluate the accuracy of EC systems in measuring sensible heat (H) and latent heat (LE) fluxes. For this
purpose, two EC systems were installed near large monolithic weighing lysimeters, on irrigated cotton fields in the Texas
High Plains, during the months of June and July 2008. Sensible and latent heat fluxes were underestimated with an average
error of about 30%. Most of the errors were from nocturnal measurements. Energy balance (EB) closure was 73.2–78.0% for daytime
fluxes. Thus, daylight fluxes were adjusted for lack of EB closure using the Bowen ratio/preservation of energy principle,
which improved the resulting EC heat flux agreement with lysimetric values. Further adjustments to EC-based ET included nighttime
ET (composite) incorporation, and the use of ‘heat flux source area’ (footprint) functions to compensate ET when the footprint
expanded beyond the crop field boundary. As a result, ET values remarkably matched lysimetric ET values, with a ‘mean bias
error ± root mean square error’ of −0.03 ± 0.5 mm day−1 (or −0.6 ± 10.2%). |
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