Constrained variability of modeled T:ET ratio across biomes

S Fatichi, C Pappas - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A large variability (35–90%) in the ratio of transpiration to total evapotranspiration
(referred here as T: ET) across biomes or even at the global scale has been documented by …

Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components

E Zahn, E Bou-Zeid, SP Good, GG Katul… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
The partitioning of evapotranspiration (ET) into surface evaporation (E) and stomatal-based
transpiration (T) is essential for analyzing the water cycle and earth surface energy budget …

Evapotranspiration partitioning in dryland ecosystems: A global meta-analysis of in situ studies

X Sun, BP Wilcox, CB Zou - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
In drylands, evapotranspiration (ET) is the dominant ecohydrologic process. For this reason,
partitioning of ET—determining the relative importance of interception (I), soil evaporation …

Contrasts between momentum and scalar transport over very rough surfaces

Q Li, E Bou-Zeid - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Large-eddy simulations are conducted to contrast momentum and passive scalar transport
over large, three-dimensional roughness elements in a turbulent channel flow. Special …

Partitioning eddy covariance water flux components using physiological and micrometeorological approaches

O Perez‐Priego, G Katul, M Reichstein… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Eddy covariance (EC) provides ecosystem‐scale estimates of photosynthesis (Ph) and
evapotranspiration (ET; the sum of plant transpiration [T] and evaporation [Es]). Separating …

Fluxpart: Open source software for partitioning carbon dioxide and water vapor fluxes

TH Skaggs, RG Anderson, JG Alfieri… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
The eddy covariance method is regularly used for measuring gas fluxes over agricultural
fields and natural ecosystems. For many applications, it is desirable to partition the …

Flux variance similarity-based partitioning of evapotranspiration over a rainfed alfalfa field using high frequency eddy covariance data

P Wagle, TH Skaggs, PH Gowda, BK Northup… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the eddy covariance (EC) technique provides direct and continuous
measurements of evapotranspiration (ET), separate measurement of evaporation (E) and …

Correlation-based flux partitioning of water vapor and carbon dioxide fluxes: Method simplification and estimation of canopy water use efficiency

TM Scanlon, DF Schmidt, TH Skaggs - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2019 - Elsevier
The partitioning of water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO 2) exchange between vegetation
and the atmosphere remains a current research priority. A technique that has been …

Amplitude modulation of velocity fluctuations in the atmospheric flows over real urban morphology

Y Liu, CH Liu, GP Brasseur, CYH Chao - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Amplitude modulation (AM) quantifies the top-down interactions between the large-scale
motions (LSMs) in the outer layer and the near-ground turbulence structures. They are …

Evaluation of Water Use Efficiency Algorithms for Flux Variance Similarity‐Based Evapotranspiration Partitioning in C3 and C4 Grain Crops

P Wagle, TH Skaggs, PH Gowda… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the high sensitivity of Flux Variance Similarity (FVS) partitioning to leaf‐level water
use efficiency (WUE), relatively little work has been done comparing WUE algorithms. We …