hydrology_soilEvaporationAmount: Bare soil evaporation and herbaceous transpiration

Description

Functions:

Function hydrology_soilEvaporationAmount calculates the amount of evaporation from bare soil, following Ritchie (1972).
Function hydrology_soilEvaporation calculates the amount of evaporation from bare soil and distributes it among soil layers.
Function hydrology_herbaceousTranspiration calculates the amount of transpiration due to herbaceous plants.

Usage

hydrology_soilEvaporationAmount(DEF, PETs, Gsoil)
hydrology_soilEvaporation(
  soil,
  snowpack,
  soilFunctions,
  pet,
  LgroundSWR,
  modifySoil = TRUE
)
hydrology_herbaceousTranspiration(
  pet,
  LherbSWR,
  herbLAI,
  soil,
  soilFunctions,
  modifySoil = TRUE
)

Value

Function hydrology_soilEvaporationAmount returns the amount of water evaporated from the soil.

Function hydrology_soilEvaporation returns a vector of water evaporated from each soil layer.

Arguments

DEF: Water deficit in the (topsoil) layer.
PETs: Potential evapotranspiration at the soil surface.
Gsoil: Gamma parameter (maximum daily evaporation).
soil: An object of class soil.
snowpack: The amount of snow (in water equivalents, mm) in the snow pack.
soilFunctions: Soil water retention curve and conductivity functions, either 'SX' (for Saxton) or 'VG' (for Van Genuchten).
pet: Potential evapotranspiration for a given day (mm)
LgroundSWR: Percentage of short-wave radiation (SWR) reaching the ground.
modifySoil: Boolean flag to indicate that the input soil object should be modified during the simulation.
LherbSWR: Percentage of short-wave radiation (SWR) reaching the herbaceous layer.
herbLAI: Leaf area index of the herbaceous layer.

Author

Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa, CREAF

References