ALTERNATE CORRECTIONS FOR ESTIMATING ACTUAL WETLAND EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FROM POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION

Corrections can be used to estimate actual wetland evapotranspiration (AET) from potential evapotranspiration (PET) as a means to define the hydrology of wetland areas. Many alternate parameterizations for correction coefficients for three PET equations are presented, covering a wide range of possib...

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Published in:Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.) N.C.), 2006-06, Vol.26 (2), p.528-543
Main Authors: Shoemaker, W. Barclay, Sumner, David M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air temperature
CONTENTS
correction coefficients
equations
Errors
estimation
Evapotranspiration
Hydrology
Instrumentation
Mathematical analysis
potential evapotranspiration
regression
regression analysis
Stomata
Surface water
surface-energy fluxes
Water availability
Wetlands
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Summary:Corrections can be used to estimate actual wetland evapotranspiration (AET) from potential evapotranspiration (PET) as a means to define the hydrology of wetland areas. Many alternate parameterizations for correction coefficients for three PET equations are presented, covering a wide range of possible data-availability scenarios. At nine sites in the wetland Everglades of south Florida, USA, the relatively complex PET Penman equation was corrected to daily total AET with smaller standard errors than the PET simple and Priestley-Taylor equations. The simpler equations, however, required less data (and thus less funding for instrumentation), with the possibility of being corrected to AET with slightly larger, comparable, or even smaller standard errors. Air temperature generally corrected PET simple most effectively to wetland AET, while wetland stage and humidity generally corrected PET Priestley-Taylor and Penman most effectively to wetland AET. Stage was identified for PET Priestley-Taylor and Penman as the data type with the most correction ability at sites that are dry part of each year or dry part of some years. Finally, although surface water generally was readily available at each monitoring site, AET was not occurring at potential rates, as conceptually expected under well-watered conditions. Apparently, factors other than water availability, such as atmospheric and stomata resistances to vapor transport, also were limiting the PET rate.
ISSN:0277-5212
1943-6246
DOI:10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[528:ACFEAW]2.0.CO;2