Modeling energy fluxes from sparse canopies and understorys.
Modeling energy fluxes from sparse canopies and understorys.
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对稀疏树冠和林下植物的能量通量进行建模。
DOI:
10.2134/agronj2000.925837x
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发表时间:
2000
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影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
K. Mcnaughton
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作者:
C. Daamen;K. Mcnaughton
1986). The surface resistance can be considered to be the equivalent resistance of all canopy leaves in parallel Land surfaces are an assemblage of component surface types, for (Monteith, 1981). The Penman-Monteith equation can instance overstory vegetation species, understory vegetation species, and bare soil. Often two or more surface types absorb a significant be applied in the more general case of an overstory fraction of the available energy to the land surface as a whole. In canopy of varying sparseness if the surface resistance of these cases the interaction of fluxes from the component surfaces may the big leaf is an equivalent resistance of all contributing be important to the total land surface energy balance. We compare surface elements from overstory and understory. three models of land surface energy balance: a Penman-Monteith A much more detailed description of turbulent transmodel; a model with two component surfaces that don’t interact (patch port processes within plant canopies was presented by model); and a model with interacting component surfaces (ShutRaupach (1989) using Lagrangian theory. McNaughton tleworth-Wallace model). Data from six published studies are used and Van den Hurk (1995) applied Raupach’s approach to investigate which models best represent a particular land surface in the case of a sparse canopy and showed that a model taking account of water supply to the component surfaces and overstory canopy architecture. Flux interaction between component with the resistance structure given in Fig. 1a is consistent surfaces was only found to be important when there was a large with Raupach’s work. This model allows for two surdifference between the surface resistances (i.e., water availability to faces with different properties and different values of the surfaces). Also, all three models were found to estimate the same vapor density at the surface (i.e., an overstory and an land surface energy fluxes (to within 50 W m22) when both surface understory). The resistance network in Fig. 1a has been resistances were .300 s m21. The ratio of (aerodynamic resistance used by Shuttleworth and Wallace (1985), Choudhury between the canopy air space and the reference height) to (mean and Monteith (1988) and several studies following on component surface boundary layer resistance) was useful for indicatfrom their papers. The network in Fig. 1 a allows interacing the level of interaction between component surfaces. tion of fluxes from the understory and overstory in the canopy air stream and is called the “interactive” model in this study. M land surfaces have a canopy of vegetation The patch model (Fig. 1b) is intermediate in complexwhich does not completely cover the understory ity to the Penman-Monteith and interactive models. It or the ground surface beneath, that is, a sparse applies the Penman-Monteith equation separately to overstory. Such surfaces include cultivated land (e.g., two different component surfaces, assuming there is no orchards, vineyards, and many row crops) and natural interaction between the surfaces. In recent literature vegetation. Natural vegetation has a sparse overstory this model has been used to estimate average land surin many semiarid environments (e.g., Nichols, 1992; face fluxes over large areas (.10 km2), and these fluxes Massman, 1992; Brenner and Incoll, 1997) although can then be used as a boundary condition in climate these canopies do occur in other environments (e.g., models. In this context evaporation is calculated sepasubarctic wetland, Lafleur and Rouse, 1990). Any land rately for large homogeneous patches and the area aversurface with a sparse overstory has at least two signifiage is the evaporation from each patch type weighted cant sources of heat and water vapor: the canopy itself by the fractional cover of the patch type. The patch and the understory or soil. These two component surmodel is fully justified at the scale where a boundary faces are often very different in their control of water layer is fully developed over each patch and edge effects and heat fluxes; both need to be accounted for when between patches are insignificant, but as the size of the calculating a flux from the land surface as a whole. Also, patches decreases this model may be less valid. Blyth interaction of fluxes from the two component surfaces and Harding (1995) studied a tiger bush land surface may be important. For example sensible heat rising from with patches of bare soil and bush. They concluded that a dry soil understory can increase transpiration from the interactive model was already more realistic than the overstory canopy by raising its temperature. the patch model for tiger bush with a ratio (patch A simple approach to estimating land surface fluxes width):(bush height) of 10:1. The patch model required is provided by the Penman-Monteith equation which extreme and unrealistic values of resistances to preserve was developed to estimate fluxes from a closed canopy the measured fluxes. of vegetation (Monteith, 1965). It assumes a homogeIn contradiction to the above result of Blyth and Harneous ‘big leaf’ surface with a single value of vapor ding (1995), the patch model has been successfully used density deficit at the surface (Jarvis and McNaughton, at the scale of the sparsely-vegetated land surface. For these land surfaces the component surfaces (overstory The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd., and understory) are treated like patch types even though P.O. Box 23, Kerikeri 0470, New Zealand. Received 15 Sept. 1999. *Corresponding author, current address: Sinclair Knight Merz, P.O. there are no distinct patches of overstory and unBox 2500, Malvern 3144, Melbourne, Australia (cdaamen@skm. derstory. Norman et al. (1995) showed that differences com.au). between the interactive and patch models made little difference to total flux from the land surface at the Published in Agron. J. 92:837–847 (2000).