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Combining Spatial Downscaling Techniques and Diurnal Temperature Cycle Modelling to Estimate Diurnal Patterns of Land Surface Temperature at Field Scale
Land surface Temperature (LST) at high spatial resolution and at sub-daily scale is highly useful for monitoring evaporative stress in plants, heatwave events, and droughts. Spatial downscaling methods are oft...
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Open AccessEvaluating different metrics from the thermal-based two-source energy balance model for monitoring grapevine water stress
Precision irrigation management requires operational monitoring of crop water status. However, there is still some controversy on how to account for crop water stress. To address this question, several physiol...
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The vertical turbulent structure within the surface boundary layer above a Vineyard in California’s Central Valley during GRAPEX
Water is already a limited resource in California, and meeting the competing water needs, there will be only more challenges in the coming decades. Thus, sustaining the production of wine grapes, which are amo...
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Influence of modeling domain and meteorological forcing data on daily evapotranspiration estimates from a Shuttleworth–Wallace model using Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data
Sustainable use of available water resources in viticulture can be aided by frequent high-resolution information on vineyard water status. Recently, a new Shuttleworth–Wallace evapotranspiration (ET) model, wh...
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Performance of Sentinel-2 SAFER ET model for daily and seasonal estimation of grapevine water consumption
Assessment of water consumption is a crucial task for irrigation management in grapevines, especially in areas with limited water resources, which is the case of California Central Valley. This study evaluated...
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Open AccessApplication of a remote-sensing three-source energy balance model to improve evapotranspiration partitioning in vineyards
Improved accuracy of evapotranspiration (ET) estimation, including its partitioning between transpiration (T) and surface evaporation (E), is key to monitor agricultural water use in vineyards, especially to e...
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Open AccessEffects of meteorological and land surface modeling uncertainty on errors in winegrape ET calculated with SIMS
Characterization of model errors is important when applying satellite-driven evapotranspiration (ET) models to water resource management problems. This study examines how uncertainty in meteorological forcing ...
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Open AccessImproving the spatiotemporal resolution of remotely sensed ET information for water management through Landsat, Sentinel-2, ECOSTRESS and VIIRS data fusion
Robust information on consumptive water use (evapotranspiration, ET) derived from remote sensing can significantly benefit water decision-making in agriculture, informing irrigation schedules and water managem...
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Impact of advection on two-source energy balance (TSEB) canopy transpiration parameterization for vineyards in the California Central Valley
Water conservation efforts for California’s agricultural industry are critical to its sustainability through severe droughts like the current one and others experienced over the last two decades. This is most ...
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Impacts of land cover heterogeneity and land surface parameterizations on turbulent characteristics and mesoscale simulations
The impacts of surface heterogeneity and land surface parameterization on the mesoscale processes were studied. Experiments were conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with a ...
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Comparison of vineyard evapotranspiration estimates from surface renewal using measured and modelled energy balance components in the GRAPEX project
Surface renewal (SR) is a biometeorological technique that uses high frequency air temperature measurements above a crop surface to estimate sensible heat flux (H). The H derived from SR is then combined with net...
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A multi-year intercomparison of micrometeorological observations at adjacent vineyards in California’s Central Valley during GRAPEX
California is among the largest wine-producing regions in the world. It is also a region with limited water resources. To ensure that scarce water resources are used effectively, the ongoing Grape Remote sensi...
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Influence of wind direction on the surface roughness of vineyards
Remote sensing-based models are the most viable means of collecting the high-resolution spatially distributed estimates of evaporative water loss needed to manage irrigation and ensure the effective use of lim...
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Intermittency of water vapor fluxes from vineyards during light wind and convective conditions
Vineyards in many semi-arid regions globally face limited water resources. Monitoring evapotranspiration (ET) of vineyards is critical for water resource management, but remains difficult due to the complex bi...
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Evaluation of TSEB turbulent fluxes using different methods for the retrieval of soil and canopy component temperatures from UAV thermal and multispectral imagery
The thermal-based Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model partitions the evapotranspiration (ET) and energy fluxes from vegetation and soil components providing the capability for estimating soil evaporation (E...
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Evapotranspiration estimates derived using thermal-based satellite remote sensing and data fusion for irrigation management in California vineyards
Irrigation in the Central Valley of California is essential for successful wine grape production. With reductions in water availability in much of California due to drought and competing water-use interests, i...
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Impact of different within-canopy wind attenuation formulations on modelling sensible heat flux using TSEB
The unique vertical canopy structure and clumped plant distribution/row structure of vineyards and orchards creates an environment that is likely to cause the wind profile inside the canopy air space to deviat...
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Crop Water Stress Index of an irrigated vineyard in the Central Valley of California
Water-limiting conditions in many California vineyards necessitate assessment of vine water stress to aid irrigation management strategies and decisions. This study was designed to evaluate the utility of a Cr...
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Quantifying variability in field-scale evapotranspiration measurements in an irrigated agricultural region under advection
This study compares evapotranspiration (ET) measurements from eddy covariance (EC), lysimetry (LY), and water balance using a network of neutron probe (NP) sensors and investigates the role of within-field va...
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Open AccessEvaluation of a Photosynthesis-Based Canopy Resistance Formulation in the Noah Land-Surface Model
Accurately representing complex land-surface processes balancing complexity and realism remains one challenge that the weather modelling community is facing nowadays. In this study, a photosynthesis-based Gas-...