The accurate partitioning of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) into two components, soil evaporation (Es) and transpiration (Tr), is needed to better understand terrestrial hydrological cycles and develop precise irrigation scheduling. However, there is no easy way to distinguish between the two....

Accurate determination of evapotranspiration (ET) is useful to develop precise irrigation scheduling. Although eddy covariance (EC) is a direct method which is widely used to measure ET, its performance in arid region of northwest China is not clear. In this study, ET measured by EC (ETEC) was...

Large areas of vineyards have been established in recent years in arid region of northwest China, despite limited water resources. Water to support these vineyards is mainly supplied by irrigation. Accurate estimation of vineyard evapotranspiration (ET) can provide a scientific basis for...

The temporal patterns of evapotranspiration (ET) and its biophysical and physiological controls (e.g., soil water content, solar radiation, and canopy conductance) occur over a wide range of time-scales ranging from seconds to decades. Thus, there is increasing interest in understanding at which...

The Penman–Monteith (P–M) equation has been widely used to predict crop water use or evapotranspiration (ET) due to its simplicity and biophysically robust framework. Surface conductance (Gs), a key variable reflecting crop physiological and soil physical responses to changing environment,...