Four decades of progress in monitoring and modeling of processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere system : applications and challenges

Autor: Salah Er-Raki, G. Boulet, Jamal Ezzahar, Vincent Simonneaux, Lahoucine Hanich, M. Le Page, M. H. Kharrou, Ghani Chehbouni, Said Khabba, Lionel Jarlan
Přispěvatelé: Romano, N. (ed.), D'Urso, G. (ed.), Severino G. (ed.), Chirico G.B. (ed.), Palladino M. (ed.)
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Procedia Environmental Sciences. 19:524-533
ISSN: 1878-0296
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2013.06.059
Popis: This paper presents an overview of a decade (2002-2012) of studies performed on Soil-Plant-Atmosphere processes, in semi-arid areas (Haouz plain, Morocco). In this period, fifteen in-situ experiments on the dominant irrigated crops were performed, controlling the fluxes exchanged between land surface and atmosphere. The results showed that the physically based SVATs (ICARE, SiSPAT and ISBA) provided the best estimates of surface fluxes. For operational purposes, the FAO-56 approach and SAMIR Software (Satellite Monitoring for Irrigation) give a good estimate of evapotranspiration at field and regional scales, respectively. Finally, thermal infrared data were used in conjunction with SVATs to investigate the possibility of estimating the quantity of irrigation water.
Databáze: OpenAIRE