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ANGULAR MODELING OF THE COMPONENTS OF NET RADIATION IN AGRICULTURAL CROPS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON ENERGY BALANCE CLOSURE
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  • Fernando Paz,
  • Ma. Isabel Marin,
  • Jaime Garatuza-Payán,
  • Christopher J. Watts,
  • Julio Cesar Rodriguez,
  • Enrico A Yepez,
  • Antoine Libert-Amico,
  • Martin Alejandro Bolaños Gonzalez
Fernando Paz
Colegio de Postgraduados
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Ma. Isabel Marin
GRENASER
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Jaime Garatuza-Payán
Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora
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Christopher J. Watts
Universidad de Sonora
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Julio Cesar Rodriguez
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Enrico A Yepez
Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora
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Antoine Libert-Amico
Programa Mexicano del Carbono
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Martin Alejandro Bolaños Gonzalez
Colegio de Postgraduados

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Abstract

Efficient water management in agricultural crops is necessary to increase productivity and adapt to climate change. Evapotranspiration (ET) data are key to determine water requirements of crops and set efficient irrigation schedules. Estimating ET at regional scale (for example, in irrigation districts) is a technically complex task that has been tackled by using data acquired by remote sensors on satellites that can be validated with scaled up field measurements when area sources are matched. Energy and matter flux measurements using the eddy covariance (EC) technique are challenging due to balance closure issues, claimed to be due to the different footprints of the energy-balance components. We describe net radiometer footprints in terms of the sun-sensor geometry to characterize the bidirectional distribution functions of albedo and thermal emissions. In this context, we describe a one-parameter model of the components of net radiation that can be calibrated with a single data point. The model was validated in an experiment with five agricultural crops at Valle del Yaqui, in Sonora, Mexico, using different sun-sensor geometry configurations. The results from the experimental fits are satisfactory (R2 > 0.99) and support the use of the model for albedo and radiative (surface) temperature in order to estimate net radiation. The analysis of the implications regarding a mismatch among footprints of the components of the energy balance showed that net radiometer fluxes are most of the time overestimated implying that the closure problem could be solved using similar footprint as aerodynamic components of the energy balance.