[HTML][HTML] Status of accuracy in remotely sensed and in-situ agricultural water productivity estimates: A review

ML Blatchford, CM Mannaerts, Y Zeng, H Nouri… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The scarcity of water and the growing global food demand has fevered the debate on how to
increase agricultural production without further depleting water resources. Crop water …

Scintillometry in urban and complex environments: a review

HC Ward - Measurement Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Knowledge of turbulent exchange in complex environments is relevant to a wide
range of hydro-meteorological applications. Observations are required to improve …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of sensible and latent heat fluxes from optical-microwave scintillometers and eddy covariance systems with respect to surface energy balance …

C Zheng, S Liu, L Song, Z Xu, J Guo, Y Ma, Q Ju… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
The eddy-covariance (EC) method has been widely used to measure sensible (H) and latent
(LE) heat fluxes, however, it has limited spatial representativeness (hundreds of meters' …

Reviewing wind measurement approaches for fixed-wing unmanned aircraft

A Rautenberg, MS Graf, N Wildmann, A Platis, J Bange - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the biggest challenges in probing the atmospheric boundary layer with small
unmanned aerial vehicles is the turbulent 3D wind vector measurement. Several …

Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large‐aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: Demonstration in London

B Saunders, S Grimmond, D Hertwig… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate numerical weather predictions (NWP) using observations, the horizontal,
vertical and temporal resolution characteristics need to be considered to ensure …

Multi-scale sensible heat fluxes in the suburban environment from large-aperture scintillometry and eddy covariance

HC Ward, JG Evans, CSB Grimmond - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2014 - Springer
Sensible heat fluxes (Q_ H QH) are determined using scintillometry and eddy covariance
over a suburban area. Two large-aperture scintillometers provide spatially integrated fluxes …

Turbulent fluxes at kilometer scale determined by optical-microwave scintillometry in a heterogeneous oasis cropland of the Heihe River Basin

F Xu, W Wang, C Huang, J Wang, Z Ren, J Feng… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Observations of kilometer-scale turbulent fluxes of sensible (H) and latent heat (LE) are
required for the validation of flux estimate algorithms from satellite remote-sensing data and …

Infrared and millimetre-wave scintillometry in the suburban environment–Part 2: Large-area sensible and latent heat fluxes

HC Ward, JG Evans… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
A millimetre-wave scintillometer was paired with an infrared scintillometer, enabling
estimation of large-area evapotranspiration across northern Swindon, a suburban area in …

Surface-layer similarity functions for dissipation rate and structure parameters of temperature and humidity based on eleven field experiments

LMJ Kooijmans, OK Hartogensis - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2016 - Springer
In the literature, no consensus can be found on the exact form of the universal funtions of
Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) for the structure parameters of temperature, C_T^ 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies to Facilitate Precision Water Management in Smallholder Farms: A Scoping Review and Bibliometric …

A Yacoob, S Gokool, A Clulow, M Mahomed… - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
While there is immense potential in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to facilitate
precision water management, there is currently no consensus on practical strategies to …