Modelling Interception and Transpiration at Monthly Time Steps
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Modelling Interception and Transpiration at Monthly Time Steps

IHE Dissertation 31

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eBook - ePub

Modelling Interception and Transpiration at Monthly Time Steps

IHE Dissertation 31

About this book

The book presents improved equations for monthly water resources models, in particular for interception and transpiration. Most of the existing monthly models do not make a distinction between interception and transipiration, while this distinction is very important for management purposes. Interception is direct feedback to the atmosphere, important to sustain rainfall. Transpiration is a good indicator for plant growth and biomass production. This distinction also contributes to the estimation of recharge and therewith of runoff.;The derivations are based on the Markov theory for the occurrence of rain-days. The methodology can be used on the basis of an analysis of a few time series of daily data, at a spatial scale of 300km and not necessarily of the same period as the monthly data. Zimbabwe served as the case study, but derived equations can be used worldwide as long as the relationship between the monthly rainfall and the mean number of rain-days can be established.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9781040893203
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Abstract
  7. Samenvatting
  8. Preface
  9. List of symbols
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 The Markov model, a stochastic model for daily rainfall
  12. 3 Occurrence of rain-days as a Markov process
  13. 4 Monthly parameters representing rainfall occurrence
  14. 5 Probabilities of daily rainfall amounts
  15. 6 Interception
  16. 7 Transpiration - the spells approach
  17. 8 Monthly model for transpiration
  18. 9 Comparison with Thornthwaite-Mather and other monthly models
  19. 10 Estimating potential transpiration
  20. 11 Spatial interpolation of daily rainfall
  21. 12 Conclusions
  22. References
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. About the author
  25. Appendix A Use of transition matrices for two state Markov processes
  26. Appendix B Gamma and Weibull distribution
  27. Appendix C Equations for potential evaporation

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