341 Measurement and Modeling of near-Surface Soil Water and Energy Fluxes: I



S01 Soil Physics
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:55 AM
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 007B
Organizers:
Robert C. Schwartz , Gerard Kluitenberg , Douglas Cobos and Miles Dyck
8:05 AM
On Measuring Shallow Liquid Water Fluxes Associated with Evaporation.
Joshua Heitman, North Carolina State University; Robert Horton, Agronomy Department; M. D. Novak, University of British Columbia; Xinhua Xiao, Iowa State University; Pukhraj K. Deol, North Carolina State University; Tusheng Ren, China Agricultural University
8:20 AM
Improved Determination of Soil Water Flux and Thermal Properties with a Penta-Needle Heat Pulse Probe.
Masaru Sakai, Mie University; Changbing Yang, the University of Texas at Austin; Gerard Kluitenberg, Kansas State University; Scott B. Jones, Utah State University
8:35 AM
8:50 AM
A Penta-Needle Heat Pulse Probe Array for Soil Subsurface Evaporation and Heat Flux Estimates.
Scott B. Jones, Utah State University; Masaru Sakai, Mie University; Markus Tuller, University of Arizona
9:05 AM
Synergistic Increase In Evaporation by Soil Heterogeneity.
Maria Ines Dragila, Oregon State University; Noam Weisbrod, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research; Uri Nachshon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
9:20 AM
Quantification of Soil Water Evaporation Using TDR-Microlysimetery.
Jourdan M. Bell, USDA-ARS-CPRL; Robert C. Schwartz, USDA-ARS-CPRL; Kevin J. Mcinnes, Texas A&M University; Terry A. Howell, USDA-ARS-CPRL; Cristine S. Morgan, Texas A&M University
9:50 AM
10:10 AM
Soil Heat Flux Determined From Diel Water Content and Temperature Variations.
Steven R. Evett, USDA-ARS; Nurit Agam, Agricultural Research Organization of Israel; William P. Kustas, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Paul D. Colaizzi, USDA-ARS; Robert C. Schwartz, USDA-ARS
10:25 AM
Measurement of NH3 Emission At Dairy Lagoon Water Application Sites.
Sang R. Lee, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory; Scott R. Yates, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory; Scott A. Bradford, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory
10:40 AM
Partitioning Evapotranspiration Into Evaporation and Transpiration In a Corn Field.
Xinhua Xiao, Iowa State University; Thomas Sauer, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture & the Environment; Jeremy Singer, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment; Robert Horton, Agronomy Department; Joshua Heitman, North Carolina State University; Tusheng Ren, China Agricultural University
10:55 AM
A Soil Water Balance Approach: Quantifying the Contribution of Shallow and Deep Roots On the Edwards Plateau.
Ieyasu Tokumoto, Texas A&M University; James Heilman, Texas A&M University; Kevin McInnes, Texas A&M University; Ray H. Kamps, Texas A&M University; Cristine Morgan, Texas A&M University
11:10 AM
Three Dimensional Electrical Resistivity Imaging of Soil Water Content and Cracking In a Vertisol.
Jason P. Ackerson, Texas A&M University; Kevin McInnes, Texas A&M University; Cristine Morgan, Texas A&M University; Mark Everett, Texas A&M University
11:25 AM
Monitoring near Surface Soil Water and Associated Dynamics of Infiltration and Evaporation Fluxes.
Robert C. Schwartz, USDA-ARS; Alan J. Schlegel, Kansas State University; Steven R. Evett, USDA-ARS; R. Louis Baumhardt, USDA-ARS
11:55 AM