Edge-to-Stem Variability in Wet-Canopy Evaporation From an Urban Tree Row |
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Authors: | II" target="_blank">John T Van StanII Zachary Norman Adrian Meghoo Jan Friesen Anke Hildebrandt Jean-François Côté S Jeffrey Underwood Gustavo Maldonado |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Geology and Geography,Georgia Southern University,Statesboro,USA;2.Department of Catchment Hydrology,Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ,Leipzig,Germany;3.Institute of Geoscience,Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Jena,Germany;4.Canadian Wood Fibre Centre,Natural Resources Canada,Québec,Canada;5.Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management,Georgia Southern University,Statesboro,USA;6.Office of the Vice President for Research,California State University,Los Angeles,USA |
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Abstract: | Evaporation from wet-canopy (\(E_\mathrm{C}\)) and stem (\(E_\mathrm{S}\)) surfaces during rainfall represents a significant portion of municipal-to-global scale hydrologic cycles. For urban ecosystems, \(E_\mathrm{C}\) and \(E_\mathrm{S}\) dynamics play valuable roles in stormwater management. Despite this, canopy-interception loss studies typically ignore crown-scale variability in \(E_\mathrm{C}\) and assume (with few indirect data) that \(E_\mathrm{S}\) is generally \({<}2\%\) of total wet-canopy evaporation. We test these common assumptions for the first time with a spatially-distributed network of in-canopy meteorological monitoring and 45 surface temperature sensors in an urban Pinus elliottii tree row to estimate \(E_\mathrm{C}\) and \(E_\mathrm{S}\) under the assumption that crown surfaces behave as “wet bulbs”. From December 2015 through July 2016, 33 saturated crown periods (195 h of 5-min observations) were isolated from storms for determination of 5-min evaporation rates ranging from negligible to 0.67 \(\hbox {mm h}^{-1}\). Mean \(E_\mathrm{S}\) (0.10 \(\hbox {mm h}^{-1}\)) was significantly lower (\(p < 0.01\)) than mean \(E_\mathrm{C}\) (0.16 \(\hbox {mm h}^{-1}\)). But, \(E_\mathrm{S}\) values often equalled \(E_\mathrm{C}\) and, when scaled to trunk area using terrestrial lidar, accounted for 8–13% (inter-quartile range) of total wet-crown evaporation (\(E_\mathrm{S}+E_\mathrm{C}\) scaled to surface area). \(E_\mathrm{S}\) contributions to total wet-crown evaporation maximized at 33%, showing a general underestimate (by 2–17 times) of this quantity in the literature. Moreover, results suggest wet-crown evaporation from urban tree rows can be adequately estimated by simply assuming saturated tree surfaces behave as wet bulbs, avoiding problematic assumptions associated with other physically-based methods. |
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