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  • Soil Drought and Water Carrying Capacity for Vegetation in the Critical Zone of the Loess Plateau: A Review

    • Authors: Shao, M.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Wang, Y.; Xia, Y.; Jia, X. (2018)

  • The Loess Plateau (LP) of China is a good representative area for critical zone (CZ) science studies. The LP is famous for its deep loess. In most areas, the thickness of the loess profile is deeper than 100 m, and two‐thirds of the area is arid and semiarid. With the Grain‐for‐Green project, the vegetation of the plateau has recovered gradually. However, with the increase in vegetative coverage, especially the planted vegetation, the water content of the soil profile has decreased and the soil is much drier. In this review, particular emphasis is paid to the dry conditions of deep soil, drought, regional restoration of vegetation, and effective management of soil moisture. We reviewed the progress of research on dried soil layers (DSLs) that resulted from soil drought in the past d...
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  • On the impact of increasing drought on the relationship between soil water content and evapotranspiration of a grassland

    • Authors: Rahmati, M.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Groh, J.; Graf, A.; Pütz, T.; Vanderborght, J.; Vereecken, H. (2020)

  • All components of the water balance were determined from 2012 until 2018. Budyko analysis was used to characterize the hydrological status of the studied sites. Wavelet analysis was also applied to study the power spectrum of ETa, vegetation‐height‐adjusted reference evapotranspiration (ETcrop), and water stress index (WSI) defined as ETa/ETcrop, as well as SWC at three different depths and the coherence between SWC and ETa and WSI. The Budyko analysis showed that 2018 resulted in a shift of both locations towards more water‐limited conditions, although Rollesbroich remained an energy‐limited system. Based on the power spectrum analysis, the annual timescale is the dominant scale for the temporal variability of ETa, ETcrop, and SWC. The results also showed that increasing dryness at...
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  • Comparison of evapotranspiration estimates using the water balance and the eddy covariance methods

    • Authors: Denager, T.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Looms, M.C.; Sonnenborg, T.O.; Jensen, K.H. (2020)

  • Evapotranspiration from eddy covariance (ETEC) is cross‐checked with evapotranspiration calculated as the residual of the water balance (ETwb). The water balance closure using ETEC is simultaneously validated. Over a 6‐yr period, all major terms of the water balance are measured including precipitation, recharge from percolation lysimeters, and soil moisture content from a cosmic‐ray neutron sensor, a capacitance sensor network, and time domain reflectometry (TDR), respectively. In addition, we estimate their respective uncertainties. The study demonstrates that both monthly and yearly ETEC and ETwb compare well and that the water balance is closed when ETEC is used. Concurrently, incoming available energy (net radiation minus ground heat flux) on average exceeds the turbulent energ...
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