Collaborative Research: Refinement of Techniques for Estimating Evapotranspiration from Narrow Riparian Zones - Water Balance and Atmospheric Measurements

项目摘要本项目是更大的Hydro-Kansas（HK）项目的一个组成部分。它有一个共同的目标，发展一个强大的，可测试的有序网络耦合过程理论（COPON），以预测在多个空间和时间尺度的大气，水文，景观和生态响应。 该项目解决了河岸带的蒸散（ET），这只占总景观的一小部分，但对全流域ET的贡献不成比例。 河岸区通常是狭窄的地区，不满足？捡东西？要求，因此不适合传统的通量测量方法。 该项目将采用最现代的技术，从扫描水汽拉曼激光雷达到地下水预算方法，可以用于测量不同阶数的流的ET。 建议的激光雷达方法涉及一种新的二维反演方法，估计ET已经产生激光雷达测量的二维水蒸气浓度顺风的河岸区。 河岸ET的信息将为COPON理论的检验提供理论基础。

Project AbstractThis project is one component of the larger Hydro-Kansas (HK) Project. It has the common goal to develop a robust, testable theory of coupled processes on ordered networks (COPON) in order to predict atmospheric, hydrologic, landscape and ecological responses at multiple space and time scales. This project addresses evapotranspiration (ET) in riparian zones; which make up only a small percentage of the total landscape, but contribute disproportionately to basin-wide ET. Riparian areas are generally narrow areas that do not meet ?fetch? requirements and so are not amenable to traditional methods of flux measurement. This project will apply the most modern technology available, from a scanning water vapor Raman lidar to a subsurface water budget approach that can be implemented for measurement of ET on streams of different orders. The proposed lidar method involves a novel two dimensional inversion method that estimates what the ET had to have been to generate lidar-measured two dimensional water vapor concentrations downwind of the riparian area. The information on riparian ET will provide a theoretical basis for testing COPON theory.