Claim · model-written summary
Major direct ET simulation errors occurred under very dry afternoon conditions.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Outcome
- Major errorse0
- Qualifier
- vapor pressure deficit between 3.5 and 4.5 kPae0
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Verbatim
e0“Major errors of the two-layer model to simulate ET directly were associated with very dry atmospheric conditions (vapor pressure deficit between 3.5 and 4.5 kPa) observed during the afternoon.”
t0“Olive Orchard”
Title
S. Ortega-Farías; R. López-Olivari Transactions of the ASABE 2012. doi:10.13031/2013.42237
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Olive orchard leaf area index ranged from 1.29 to 1.34 m2 m-2.
- Observation Olive orchard fractional cover ranged from 0.29 to 0.30.
- Observation Midday olive stem water potential exceeded -1.96 MPa.
- Method / resource Model latent heat flux RMSE was 28 W m-2.
- Method / resource Model latent heat flux agreement index was 0.98.
- Method / resource Model olive evapotranspiration RMSE was 0.52 mm d-1.
- Method / resource Model olive evapotranspiration agreement index was 0.84.
- Method / resource The model overestimated latent heat flux by about 2%.
- Method / resource The model overestimated evapotranspiration by about 6%.
- Method / resource Model output was highly sensitive to measurement errors in stomatal conductance and LAI.
- Method / resource The main errors did not significantly affect overall model performance.