Calibration and Validation of The Soil Water Balance Model Wave For Forest Stands In Flanders: 1. Experimental Setup
Abstract
Knowledge on hydrology and particularly on water use in forest ecosystems is rather scarce in Flanders. In order to assess the impact of forests in catchment hydrology, a model approach is required based on available or easily measurable parameters on me- teorology, forest patrimonium and soil cover. A pragmatic approach to calculate water use by forests is to implement a soil water balance model, which enables a reasonable estimate of the evapotranspiration (ET) despite of the fragmented forest, and therefore the strong boundary effects, typically for Flanders. The scientific objectives of this project are multiple: the calibration (i) and validation (ii) of the water balance model WAVE (Water and Agrochemicals in soil, crop and Vadose Environment) to calculate indirectly evapotranspiration of forests (for oak, beech, ash, poplar and pine) on 17 in- tensely and extensively sampled plots. Verification of the evapotranspiration from the WAVE-output with sap-flow measurements (iii). Comparison of evapotranspiration of forests to that of pasture and cropland will also be made (iv). Measurements of rainfall, throughfall, stemflow, capillary rise from the groundwater table (possibly recharge), percolation and changes in soil water content are conducted on weekly base, except for winter time (every two weeks). From these water balance terms the forest evapo- transpiration is derived. The Leaf-Area-Index was gained using hemispherical canopy images. This parameter is used for determining the soil evaporation and tree transpi- ration component from the simulated evaptranspiration. Sap-flow measurements are gathered using the Heat Field Deformation Method (Cermàk and Nadezhdina, 1998) in four plots (2 pine stands, popular, beech/oak). The preliminary results of the cal- ibration and validation of the soil water balance model WAVE for forest stands in Flanders are shown in part 2.
- Publication:
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EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002EGSGA..27..543V