Daniel Kurzweil CUNY College of Staten Island

Shawn Kefauver Dr. Susan Ustin 7/26/11

IMPORTANCE BACKGROUND AND METHODS OF SAMPLING DATA RESULTS CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

WATER IS A SCARCE RESOURCE UNDERSTANDING THE MOST EFFICIENT PRACTICES WILL ENSURE LONG TERM VIABILITY.

Earth Forum, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Figure 3.9, Ward and Trimble 2004

A MEASURE OF HOW MUCH WATER IS AVAILABLE TO THE PLANT. MEASURED IN INCHES PER FOOT OF SOIL. SOIL AT PARAMOUNT FARMS IS A FINE SANDY LOAM.

Figure 4.5, Ward and Trimble 2004

A MEASURE OF LEAF AREA PER GROUND AREA. VALUES IN THE ORCHARD RANGED FROM .5 TO 2.25

A MEASURE OF WATER HELD IN THE LEAVES. EWT=/ (g/ cm2) THIS GIVES US A MEASUREMENT IN CM.

A COMBINATION OF EVAPORATION AND TRANSPIRATION. EVAPORATION FROM THE GROUND, TRANSPIRATION FROM TREES. THIS PROCESS ACCOUNTS FOR MUCH OF THE WATER LOSS THE ORCHARDS SEE.

TIME BETWEEN IRRIGATION RANGES FROM A DAY TO SEVERAL DAYS BLOCKS ARE FURTHER BROKEN INTO SETS

COMPARISONS INCLUDED PAW VS SOIL DEPTH VS TIME PAW VS TIME EWT VS TIME LAI VS TIME ET VS TIME ET VS EWT

(CM)

TIME(DAYSSINCEIRRIGATION)

(mm/hr)

(CM)

PAW in ft 3.0

Days : 2,4,5,6

2.5

PAW2 PAW4

2.0

PAW5 PAW6 Wilting Point

1.5

1.0

Field Capacity Rootzone

0.5

0.0

10

Depth feet

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PAW in ft 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0

PAWvs Time
PAW

Wilting Point

Field Cap

Days Since Irrigation

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ET m hr m 0.90 0.88 0.86 0.84 0.82 0.80 0.78 0.76

Evapotranspiration Almonds

Evapotranspiration Days Since Irrigation

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FROM SEBAL DATA - FUREY

ET m hr m 0.9

Evapotranspiration Pistachios

0.8

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Evapotranspiration

0.7

0.6

0.5

Days Since Irrigation

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FROM SEBAL DATA - FUREY

LITTLE TO NO CORRELATION FOR EWT vs TIME, LAI vs TIME, AND EWT vs ET. VERY NICE REPRESENTATIVE CURVES FOR PAW. MORE WORK TO BE DONE WITH ET DATA.

MORE DATA NEEDED

AND FUNDING

Dr. Jane Alexander CUNY CSI Dr. Alan Benimoff CUNY CSI Dr. Kevin OBryant CUNY CSI NSERC STAFF NASA STAFF BRANDON AND STEVE FOR THE ET AND LAI EVERYONE ELSE FROM SARP CSTARS TEAM

Bedient, Philip B., and Wayne Charles. Huber.Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. Print. Ward, Andrew D., and Stanley Wayne. Trimble.Environmental Hydrology. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis, 2004. Print.