Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-14T13:09:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ALEXANDRA LIMA TAVARES - TESE (PPGMet) 2016.PDF: 1785379 bytes, checksum: 4abc947e5329e85eba74a25f6ab6e976 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T13:09:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALEXANDRA LIMA TAVARES - TESE (PPGMet) 2016.PDF: 1785379 bytes, checksum: 4abc947e5329e85eba74a25f6ab6e976 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Capes / O estudo foi conduzido na Unidade de Produção de Hortaliças da empresa Hortaliças Vida Verde, em parceria com a Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), localizado no município de Itabaiana, SE. O objetivo do trabalho foi determinar a evapotranspiração (ETc) e os coeficientes de cultivo (Kc) do coentro e da alface cultivados em clima tropical, bem como avaliar as variáveis fenométricas ao longo de seu ciclo de produção. A ETc das culturas foi obtida através do balanço hídrico no solo e a evapotranspiração de referência (ETo) pelo método de Penman-Monteith, utilizando-se dados coletados numa estação automática localizada próxima à área experimental. As variáveis fenométricas avaliadas foram: comprimento das raízes e caule, área foliar e peso da massa fresca da parte aérea. Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciaram que os valores médios da ETc do coentro e da alface são, respectivamente, 139,8 e 158,5 mm, nas condições de realização do experimento. O Kc médio do coentro encontrado foi 0,87 e da alface 0,84. Verificou-se que as culturas do coentro e da alface requerem mais atenção com a demanda hídrica no período do verão. Os resultados obtidos permitiram ainda constatar que o coentro e a alface no período de outono proporcionam melhor desenvolvimento de suas variáveis fenométricas, bem como suas produtividades, sendo portanto este o período mais apropriado para o cultivo dessas culturas em regiões tropicais. / The study was carried out in production unit of vegetabled of company Hortaliças “Vida Verde” in partnership with the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), located in the city of Itabaiana, SE. The objective of this study was to determine the evapotranspiration (ETc) and crop coefficients (Kc) of coriander and lettuce grown in a tropical environment, as well as evaluating the fenometric variables throughout its production cycles. The ETc crops was determined based on soil water balance and reference evapotranspiration (ETo) by Penman-Monteith method (FAO/56), using collected dates from automatic weather station next to experimental site. The fenometric variables were: length of the roots and stem, leaf area and Fresh weight of shoot. The mean values of ETc for coriander and lettuce are, respectively, 139.8 and 158.5 mm while the mean values of Kc were 0.87 and 0.84 for coriander and lettuce, respectively. Results also show that coriander crop water needs are higher than lettuce during summer period. The results revealed that the coriander and lettuce in the fall period provide better development of their fenometric variables and productivity, which is the most appropriate period for the cultivation of these crops in the tropical regions.

The Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is a state-of-the-art modelling approach to simulate evapotranspiration (ET) at site and local scale. However, its practical application is often restricted by the availability and quality of required parameters. One of these parameters is the canopy conductance. Long term measurements of evapotranspiration by the eddy-covariance method provide an improved data basis to determine this parameter by inverse modelling. Because this approach may also include evaporation from the soil, not only the ‘actual’ canopy conductance but the whole surface conductance (gc) is addressed. Two full cycles of crop rotation with five different crop types (winter barley, winter rape seed, winter wheat, silage maize, and spring barley) have been continuously monitored for 10 years. These data form the basis for this study. As estimates of gc are obtained on basis of measurements, we investigated the impact of measurements uncertainties on obtained values of gc. Here, two different foci were inspected more in detail. Firstly, the effect of the energy balance closure gap (EBCG) on obtained values of gc was analysed. Secondly, the common hydrological practice to use vegetation height (hc) to determine the period of highest plant activity (i.e., times with maximum gc concerning CO2-exchange and transpiration) was critically reviewed. The results showed that hc and gc do only agree at the beginning of the growing season but increasingly differ during the rest of the growing season. Thus, the utilisation of hc as a proxy to assess maximum gc (gc,max) can lead to inaccurate estimates of gc,max which in turn can cause serious shortcomings in simulated ET. The light use efficiency (LUE) is superior to hc as a proxy to determine periods with maximum gc. Based on this proxy, crop specific estimates of gc,maxcould be determined for the first (and the second) cycle of crop rotation: winter barley, 19.2 mm s−1 (16.0 mm s−1); winter rape seed, 12.3 mm s−1 (13.1 mm s−1); winter wheat, 16.5 mm s−1 (11.2 mm s−1); silage maize, 7.4 mm s−1 (8.5 mm s−1); and spring barley, 7.0 mm s−1 (6.2 mm s−1).

The Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is a state-of-the-art modelling approach to simulate evapotranspiration (ET) at site and local scale. However, its practical application is often restricted by the availability and quality of required parameters. One of these parameters is the canopy conductance. Long term measurements of evapotranspiration by the eddy-covariance method provide an improved data basis to determine this parameter by inverse modelling. Because this approach may also include evaporation from the soil, not only the ‘actual’ canopy conductance but the whole surface conductance (gc) is addressed. Two full cycles of crop rotation with five different crop types (winter barley, winter rape seed, winter wheat, silage maize, and spring barley) have been continuously monitored for 10 years. These data form the basis for this study. As estimates of gc are obtained on basis of measurements, we investigated the impact of measurements uncertainties on obtained values of gc. Here, two different foci were inspected more in detail. Firstly, the effect of the energy balance closure gap (EBCG) on obtained values of gc was analysed. Secondly, the common hydrological practice to use vegetation height (hc) to determine the period of highest plant activity (i.e., times with maximum gc concerning CO2-exchange and transpiration) was critically reviewed. The results showed that hc and gc do only agree at the beginning of the growing season but increasingly differ during the rest of the growing season. Thus, the utilisation of hc as a proxy to assess maximum gc (gc,max) can lead to inaccurate estimates of gc,max which in turn can cause serious shortcomings in simulated ET. The light use efficiency (LUE) is superior to hc as a proxy to determine periods with maximum gc. Based on this proxy, crop specific estimates of gc,maxcould be determined for the first (and the second) cycle of crop rotation: winter barley, 19.2 mm s−1 (16.0 mm s−1); winter rape seed, 12.3 mm s−1 (13.1 mm s−1); winter wheat, 16.5 mm s−1 (11.2 mm s−1); silage maize, 7.4 mm s−1 (8.5 mm s−1); and spring barley, 7.0 mm s−1 (6.2 mm s−1).