A comparison of three models used to determine water fluxes over the Albany Thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa:

Palmer, Anthony R; Ezenne, G I; Choruma, D J; Gwate, O; Mantel, Sukhmani M; Tanner, Jane L

Title: A comparison of three models used to determine water fluxes over the Albany Thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa:
Creator: Palmer, Anthony R
Creator: Ezenne, G I
Creator: Choruma, D J
Creator: Gwate, O
Creator: Mantel, Sukhmani M
Creator: Tanner, Jane L
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150047
Identifier: vital:38934
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107984
Description: The Albany Thicket (AT) biome contains outstanding global biodiversity as well as the potential to achieve carbon credits associated with water-efficient Crasslucean acid metabolism (CAM). Understanding the water fluxes in the AT is crucial to determining carbon (C) sequestration rates and water-use efficiency. Despite large variation in water fluxes across the AT, only a few studies have been conducted in this region with their results validated against short periods of observed data. This study aims to evaluate three models of water fluxes over AT against data from an eddy covariance (EC) system active from October 2015 to May 2018. ET was modelled using the BioGeoChemistry Management (BGC-MAN) model, a biophysical model (Penman-Monteith-Leuning (PML)) and a remotely-sensed product (MOD16), and their results compared with that from the EC system.
Format: 10 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Relation: Palmer, A.R., Ezenne, G.I., Choruma, D.J., Gwate, O., Mantel, S.K. and Tanner, J.L., 2020. A comparison of three models used to determine water fluxes over the Albany Thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 288, p.107984.
Relation: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology volume 288 number p.107984 July 2020 0168-1923
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Palmer, Anthony R (Tony) (Dr)

Tanner, Jane L (Dr)

RU Institute for Water Research, including the Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality (IWR)

Mantel, Sukhmani (Dr)

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