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A catchment scale water balance model for FIFEA catchment scale water balance model is presented and used to predict evaporation from the King's Creek catchment at the First ISLSCP Field Experiment site on the Konza Prairie, Kansas. The model incorporates spatial variability in topography, soils, and precipitation to compute the land surface hydrologic fluxes. A network of 20 rain gages was employed to measure rainfall across the catchment in the summer of 1987. These data were spatially interpolated and used to drive the model during storm periods. During interstorm periods the model was driven by the estimated potential evaporation, which was calculated using net radiation data collected at site 2. Model-computed evaporation is compared to that observed, both at site 2 (grid location 1916-BRS) and the catchment scale, for the simulation period from June 1 to October 9, 1987.
Document ID
19930036635
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Famiglietti, J. S.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Wood, E. F.
(Princeton Univ. NJ, United States)
Sivapalan, M.
(Western Australia Univ. Nedlands, Australia)
Thongs, D. J.
(Princeton Univ. NJ, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
November 30, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 97
Issue: D17
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
93A20632
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-899
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGT-60153
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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