Course: Energy and Water Regime at the Land Surface, Lecture (3103-501)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck (verantwortlich)
• Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer (begleitend)
• Dr. Sebastian Gayler (begleitend)

Type of Course:

lecture

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

1. Radiation processes at the land surface (long and shortwave radation, albedo, photosynthetically active radiation)
2. Energy partitioning at the land surface (fluxes of latent and sensible heat, ground heat flux, photosynthesis)
3. Transport of energy and water in soil (1D, 3D; Fourier's law, Richards equation, material functions, infiltration)
4. Landscape hydrology (processes at the watershed scale, linear models, lumped models, semi-distributed models, 3D models)
5. Evapotranspiration (Penman equation)
6. Land surface models (NOAH-MP)
7. Crop models (assimilation, root growth, biological time, stress)
8. Turbulent fluxes (basics, Monin-Obhukov theory)

Literature:

Bonan, G.B.
 Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications.
 Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Jury, W.A., Horton, R.H.
 Soil Physics. 
John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Hillel, D. 
Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics: The State and the Transport of Matter and Energy in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum. 
Academic Press, 2003.
Campbell, G.S., Norman, J.M. 
An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics.
 Springer, 2000.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 3103-500 Energy and Water Regime at the Land Surface (compulsory)