Session 10B The Multifaceted Role of Evapotranspiration: Impacts on Ecosystems, Agriculture, Drought Monitoring, and Climate I

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
340 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 38th Conference on Hydrology
Chair:
Kyle R. Knipper, USDA, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD
Cochairs:
Nicolas E. Bambach, UC Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA; Martha C. Anderson, ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD; William Kustas, USDA, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD and Yun Yang, ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a fundamental process that influences a wide range of applications across scientific disciplines such as ecology, agriculture and meteorology. In ecology, ET is critical in regulating the water balance of ecosystems, affecting plant growth, carbon uptake, and nutrient cycling. Understanding ET patterns and dynamics is essential for predicting ecosystem response to changes in environmental conditions, such as climate or land use change. In agriculture, ET is critical for estimating crop water requirements and scheduling irrigation, helping to optimize crop yield and reduce water use in water limited regions. It can also indicate drought conditions, providing insights into water availability and potential crop stress. Ultimately, ET is critical for understanding the Earth’s energy balance and the role of the water cycle in regulating the climate system. By accurately modeling and monitoring ET, we can improve our ability to understand climate change impacts on water resources and ecosystems, while increasing the resiliency of these systems. Considering this, and in keeping with this year’s AMS theme of “Living in a Changing Environment”, we are seeking submissions related to novel approaches focusing on ET field to remote sensing monitoring and modeling. We encourage interdisciplinary ET studies aiming to explain, mitigate, and/or prevent disruptions or changes in ecosystems, agriculture, drought, or climate.

Submitters:  Kyle R. Knipper, Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Davis, CA; Nicolas E. Bambach, Viticulture and Enology, Univ. of California Davis, Davis, CA; Martha C. Anderson, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, UT; William Kustas, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab, USDA, Beltsville, MD and Yun Yang, Mississippi State Univ., Starkville, MS

Papers:
10:45 AM
10B.1
Hydrosat: Daily, field-scale, global evapotranspiration from space
Joshua Fisher, Hydrosat, Washington, DC; Hydrosat, Inc., Washington, DC; and W. Bastiaanssen and S. Soenen

11:00 AM
10B.2
Droughts aggravate impacts on post-fire evapotranspiration recovery in the Western U.S.
Shahryar K Ahmad, NASA GSFC, Lanham, MD; and T. R. Holmes, S. V. Kumar, PhD, T. M. Lahmers, P. W. Liu, W. Nie, A. Getirana, C. R. Hain, and F. Melton

11:15 AM
10B.3
Impacts of Plant-Physiological Forcing on Humidity Driven Extreme Heat
Ashley Ellen Cornish, MS, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and G. J. Kooperman, A. J. Grundstein, and C. B. Skinner

11:30 AM
10B.4
Field-Scale assessment of Water Use change over the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Yun Yang, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and W. Duan, M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. R. Hain, R. Gao, PhD, and F. Melton

11:45 AM
10B.5
Data Fusion and Mining Techniques to Map Water Use and Drought across Spatial Scales (Invited)
Christopher Hain, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. C. Anderson, Y. Yang, and V. Mishra

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