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ESTIMATION OF REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FROM ARID AND SEMI‐ARID SURFACES 1
Author(s) -
Liu Jingmiao,
Kotoda Kazuo
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb05958.x
Subject(s) - evapotranspiration , arid , eddy covariance , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , water balance , advection , watershed , geology , ecosystem , ecology , paleontology , physics , geotechnical engineering , machine learning , computer science , biology , thermodynamics
Evapotranspiration (ET) from oasis and Gobi surfaces in the Heihe River region of China was estimated by Kotoda (1986) and Advection‐Aridity (Brutsaert and Stricker, 1979) models. The ET estimates were compared with eddy‐correlation ET estimates. The ET estimated by both models are in good agreement with ET obtained by means of eddy‐correlation method for the oasis surface while underestimating ET as compared to the eddy‐correlation method. For the Gobi surface, the models yielded obviously overestimates of evapotranspiration. In order to estimate evapotranspiration from arid surfaces, the Kotoda model was modified by introducing the surface moisture availability parameter a from Barton (1979). The modified Kotoda model yielded ET estimates that were very close to that from the eddy‐correlation method for the Gobi surface. The modified Kotoda model was used to estimate evapotranspiration from the Heihe River watershed, an area with complicated topography and land use, and the results compared with those from a water balance method. A sensitivity analysis of the modified model was performed. The results show that the modified Kotoda model can reflect the relationship between the actual evapotranspiration and the main controlling factors on it for both wet and arid surfaces reasonably. From this study, it can be concluded that the modified Kotoda model is applicable fro the estimation of regional evapotranspiration from areas with complicated topography and land use.