Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Soil compaction and water availability are related to crop performance. Its individual effects are very difficult to be measured and, possibly, they have joint effects in field conditions. In periods of lack of rain the plant water deficit and the soil resistance to root growth are the main factors associated to crop yield losses. How they affect the biological processes in commercial crops is understood, however, when and how intense are questions which are hard to answer. The hypothesis proposed is that the time to a given stress indicator to reach a restrictive state is a measure of the state of compaction and is related with plant response. Values of indicators of penetration resistance, relative leaf hydric potential and relative real evapotranspiration were measured in different states of compaction, with and without irrigation, and related to blackbeans growth and yield components. The time for soil resistance to penetration reaching 2 MPa was different for different levels of compaction and was directly related to grain yield, confirming the hypothesis of this work. Blackbeans grain yield was the variable which better pointed out the compaction effect, whereas leaf area index and plant height, because of its low association with hydric deficit, had lower sensibility to compaction. There was a significant association of time to penetration resistance to reach 2 MPa with plant height and grain yield; however, when plants grew with irrigation in compacted soil, the later was not felt by plants. On the other hand, when compacted soil was not irrigated but chiseled, there was grain yield increase similar to what was gained by irrigation. Thus, the results pointed out that the compaction effects is intensified by hydric deficit, what in the other hand, without hydric deficit, the compaction may have low impact on crop production. The analysis of time for penetration resistance reaching restrictive values may be a promisor strategy and also serve as predictor of soil compaction effects on crop performance. / A compactação do solo e a disponibilidade de água estão relacionadas com o desempenho das culturas. Seus efeitos individuais são difíceis de mensurar e, possivelmente, inseparáveis em uma condição de campo. Em períodos de escassez de chuvas, o déficit hídrico na planta e a resistência do solo à penetração radicular são os principais fatores causadores de perda de rendimento. O modo como eles afetam processos biológicos nas culturas já é bem compreendido, no entanto quando e com que intensidade são questões difíceis de responder. A hipótese enunciada é que o tempo para um indicador de estresse se manifestar é uma medida do estado de compactação e que tem relação com a resposta das plantas. Valores indicadores de restrição de resistência à penetração, potencial hídrico foliar relativo e evapotranspiração real relativa foram quantificados em diferentes níveis de compactação, com e sem irrigação, e relacionados com medidas da cultura de feijoeiro. O tempo para a resistência à penetração atingir o valor de 2 MPa foi diferente entre os níveis de compactação e esteve diretamente relacionado com o rendimento de grãos, confirmando a hipótese deste trabalho. O rendimento de grãos foi a variável que melhor evidenciou o efeito da compactação, enquanto que o índice de área foliar e altura de plantas, por agregarem pouco o efeito do déficit hídrico, mostraram menor sensibilidade. Houve correlação significativa do tempo para a resistência à penetração atingir o valor de 2 MPa com a altura de plantas e o rendimento de grãos. Quando as plantas cresceram sob irrigação em solo compactado o efeito da compactação foi pouco percebido. Em relação ao solo compactado e sem irrigação, a escarificação proporcionou aumento no rendimento de grãos próximos aos incrementos obtidos com irrigação. Assim, os resultados evidenciaram que o efeito da compactação é intensificado pelo déficit hídrico. Por outro lado, sem déficit hídrico a compactação pode ter pouco impacto sobre a produção das culturas. A análise do tempo para a evolução da resistência à penetração a um valor crítico se mostrou uma estratégia promissora e com potencial preditivo do efeito da compactação do solo sobre as culturas.

O estabelecimento de balanços hídricos no campo é difícil e dispendioso, sendo a variabilidade de seus componentes o maior problema para se obter resultados confiáveis. Esta variabilidade dos componentes é aqui apresentada para uma cultura de café desenvolvida no hemisfério sul, em um solo tropical com 10% de declividade. É concluído que a chuva deve ser medida com um número apropriado de repetições, que a irrigação pode introduzir grande variabilidade dos cálculos, que a evapotranspiração calculada a partir da equação do balanço hídrico tem coeficientes de variação muito altos, que o componente armazenamento de água no solo é o que mais contribui na propagação dos erros e que a enxurrada pôde ser satisfatoriamente controlada nesse declive por meio de práticas de manejo. / The establishment of field water balances is difficult and costly, the variability of its components being the major problem to obtain reliable results. This component variability is here presented for a coffee crop grown in the Southern Hemisphere, on a tropical soil with 10% slope. It is concluded that rainfall has to the measured with an appropriate number of replicates, that irrigation can introduce great variability into calculations, that evapotranspiration calculated from the water balance equation has high coefficients of variation, that the soil water storage component is the major contributor in error propagation calculations, and that the run-off could be satisfactorily controlled through crop management practices.

A disponibilidade de água no solo para as culturas é um dos principais fatores de produção. O estudo das características climáticas, juntamente com as propriedades físico-hídricas do solo, o sistema de manejo do agro-ambiente e as características vegetais são itens fundamentais para a implantação de um canavial produtivo. Objetivando caracterizar o comportamento da água no solo e sua influência na produtividade da cana-de-açúcar com e sem adubação nitrogenada, foram instalados instrumentos para medir a entrada e saída da água do solo, permitindo a efetuação do balanço de água em um LATOSSOLO VERMELHO Distrófico típico, localizado na Usina Santa Adélia, Município de Jaboticabal - São Paulo. O estudo foi conduzido em delineamento de blocos casualizados, com 2 tratamentos e 4 repetições, sendo que os tratamentos constaram de uma testemunha - T1 (sem adubação nitrogenada) e T2 (120 kg ha-1 de nitrogênio). As avaliações foram realizadas do dia 30 de setembro de 2005 a 12 de julho de 2006. O volume de controle de utilizado teve como limite inferior a profundidade de 0,90 m, uma vez que essa camada engloba mais de 95 % do sistema radicular da cana-de-açúcar. A precipitação pluviométrica foi medida com um pluviômetro, modelo Paulista, instalado ao lado da área experimental e uma estação meteorológica automática instalada a 500 m da área experimental. As armazenagens de água no solo foram feitas gravimetricamente, nas seguintes camadas: 0 - 0,15; 0,15 - 0,25; 0,25 - 0,35; 0,35 - 0,45; 0,45 - 0,55; 0,55 - 0,65; 0,65 - 0,75; 0,75 - 0,85; 0,85 - 0,95 m; em períodos que variaram de 14 a 28 dias, totalizando 14 amostragens. Para a determinação das densidades de fluxo diárias, no limite inferior do volume de controle de solo, foram instalados tensiômetros nas profundidades de 0,80; 0,90 e 1,0 m, sendo que o tensiômetro de 0,90 m foi utilizado para a estimação da umidade do solo, com uso da curva de retenção da água no solo, e os outros dois tensiômetros para o cálculo do gradiente de potencial total da água no solo. As densidades de fluxo foram calculadas pela equação de Darcy-Buckingham, sendo que a condutividade hidráulica do solo foi determinada pelo método do perfil instantâneo. Conhecendo esses componentes, foi possível efetuar o balanço de água no solo para os 13 períodos, calculando a evapotranspiração pela equação de balanço de massas, uma vez que a pequena declividade permitiu negligenciar o escoamento superficial. As perdas de água por drenagem interna para todo o período não apresentou diferença significativa, enquanto a entrada de água no volume de controle de solo por ascensão capilar foi 87,53 % maior no T2. Esse comportamento das densidades de fluxo nos tratamentos não refletiu em diferença significativa para a armazenagem de água no solo. Ao longo dos 13 períodos avaliados, o T2 apresentou uma evapotranspiração de 1156,06 mm, enquanto no T1 foi de 1057,85. Não se verificou diferença significativa para a produtividade, nem para a eficiência de uso da água da cultura. / The soil water availability for agricultural crops is one of the main production factors. The study of climatic characteristics together with soil physical and hydrological properties, agroenvironmental management system and the plant characteristics are of fundamental importance for the introduction of a productive sugarcane crop. With the objective of characterizing the soilwater behaviour and its influence on the sugarcane productivity, with and without nitrogen fertilization, instruments were installed to measure inputs and outputs of water in the soil, which permitted the determination of the water balance in an Ultisol (Arenic Kandiustults) located in the county of Jaboticabal, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The work was carried out using the experimental design of random blocks, with two treatments and four replications, being the treatments: T1 (control, without nitrogen fertilization), T2 (120 kg ha-1 of nitrogen fertilization). Measurements were made from September 30, 2005 to July 12, 2006. The lower limit of the soil control volume for the water balance was the soil depth if 0.9 m. Rainfall was measured with a raingauge, model ?Paulista? installed beside the experimental area and also by means of an automatic meteorological station installed 500 m from the experimental area. Soil water storages were made gravimetrically in the following soil layers 0 - 0.15 m; 0.15 - 0.25 m; 0.25 - 0.35 m; 0.35 - 0.45 m; 0.45 - 0.55 m; 0.55 - 0.65 m; 0.65 - 0.75 m; 0.75 - 0.85 m; 0.85 - 0.95 m in periods that varied from 14 to 28 days, totalizing 14 samplings. For the dayly water flux density calculations in the lower limit of the control volume, by Darcy-Buckingham equation, tensiometers were installed the 0.80, 0.90 and 1.00 m soil depths, being the tensiometer at the 0.90 m depth used to calculate the soil water content, via a soil water retention curve, and then the soil hydraulic conductivity at this depth, and the other two tensiometers to calculate the soil water total potential gradient at the same depth. The hydraulic conductivity as a function of soil water content was determined by the instantaneous profile method. With the knowledge of these processes of the soil water balance, it was possible to determine the balance for the 13 selected periods, calculating the actual evapotranspiration as the unknown of the soil water balance equation. The small slope of the experimental area permitted to neglect the surface runoff. Internal drainage water losses for the entire period between treatments, were not different, while the water inputs in the control volume by capillary rise was 87.53% higher in treatments T2. This behaviour of the water flux densities in the treatments did not reflect in significant differences for the soil water storage. For the entire evaluated period, treatment T2 presented an evapotranspiration of 1156.06 mm, and treatement T1 of 1057.85 mm. Sugarcane productivity and water use efficiency did not present significant defference between treatments T1 and T2 eventhough plants of treatment T1 were, in average, more efficient in using water.

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Le stock d’eau, ses variations temporelles et leurs répartitions spatiales, sont des grandes inconnues du cycle hydrologique d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Les trois principaux types de gravimètres actuels (un gravimètre relatif supraconducteur –SG–, un microgravimètre relatif –CG5–, et un gravimètre absolu –FG5–) ont été déployés sur un bassin versant élémentaire de l’observatoire AMMA-CATCH de l’Ouémé supérieur (Bénin), représentatif d’un milieu cultivé de la zone soudanienne. Conjointement, un important dispositif de suivi hydrologique (piézométrie, sonde à neutrons) a été mis en place, ainsi que des mesures de géophysique de proche surface (mesures électriques, électromagnétiques et résonance magnétique des protons –RMP–) pour la caractérisation des aquifères. Ces travaux font état des apports de la gravimétrie pour 1) la détermination de la porosité de drainage en zone de socle hétérogène, 2) le suivi des variations de stock d’eau intégrées à l’échelle d’appréhension des gravimètres (parcelle de 100m de côté) et 3) l’identification de processus hydrologiques liés à la redistribution interne au sein du bassin versant et à la genèse des écoulements. / Water storage, together with its temporal and spatial variations, are major unknowns of the West African hydrological cycle. The three main gravimeter types (a relative superconducting gravimeter –SG–, a relative microgravimeter –CG5–, and an absolute gravimeter –FG5–) have been set up on an elementary catchment of the Upper Ouémé (Benin) AMMA-CATCH observatory, considered as a typical cultivated environment of the Sudanian area. Hydrological monitoring (water table, neutron probe) and near surface geophysics (electrical, electromagnetic, magnetic resonance soundings –MRS–) have been developed jointly, for aquifer characterization. This work states on the inputs provided by gravimetry on 1) specific yield determination in heterogeneous basement area, 2) the monitoring of water storage changes at the gravity measurements scale (100m square plot) and 3) hydrological processes identification, linked to internal catchment redistribution and streamflow generation.

Die Nutzung regenerativer Energiequellen stellt in vielen Systemen und Versorgungsnetzen wesentlich höhere Anforderungen an die Konstruktion, Auslegung und Betriebsführung von Wärmespeichern als konventionelle Energieträger. Aber auch das Potenzial eines Brennwertkessels kann mit einem optimierten Wasserwärmespeicher besser ausgeschöpft werden. Entscheidend für die Effizienzsteigerung von Wärmespeichern mit ausgeprägter thermischer Schichtung ist die Ausbildung und Aufrechterhaltung einer schmalen Mischzone zwischen dem wärmeren und kälteren Bereich des Speichers. Eine schmale Mischzone und eine niedrige Temperatur im unteren „entladenen“ Speicherbereich wirken sich positiv auf den Wirkungsgrad von Sonnenkollektoren und Brennwertkesseln aus. Beim Einsatz von Wärmepumpen verbessert sich deren Leistungszahl. Der Beitrag zeigt die Auswirkungen der Betriebsweise und der konstruktiven Details des Wärmespeichers, insbesondere der Be- und Entladevorrichtungen, auf, welche durch experimentelle und numerische Untersuchungen ermittelt wurden. / The spreading integration of renewable sources of energy into conventional heat supply systems places high demands on the designing, dimensioning and operation of hot water storage tanks. A pronounced thermal stratification is of positive influence for the efficiency of solar collectors, condensing boilers and the COP of heat pumps connected to the storage tank. The extent of the thermal mixing layer determines the volumetric efficiency of the tank and thus the economics of investment and operation. In this paper, a method is presented by which the losses of hot water storage tanks are correlated to the tank design and operating conditions.

Wetlands are important elements of watersheds that influence water storage, surface water runoff, groundwater recharge/discharge processes, and evapotranspiration. To understand the cumulative effect wetlands have on a watershed, one must have a good understanding of the water-level fluctuations and the storage characteristics associated with multiple wetlands across a region. An improved analytical method is presented to describe the storage characteristics of wetlands in the absence of detailed hydrologic and bathymetric data. Also, a probabilistic approach based on frequency analysis is developed to provide insight into surface and groundwater interactions associated with isolated wetlands. The results of the work include: 1) a power-function model based on a single fitting parameter and two physically based parameters was developed and used to represent the storage of singular or multiple wetlands and lakes with acceptable error, 2) a novel hydrologic characterization applied to 56 wetlands in west-central Florida provided new information about wetland hydroperiods which indicated standing water was present in the wetlands 62% of the time and these wetlands were groundwater recharge zones 59% of the time over the seven year study, 3) the smallest extreme value probability distribution function was identified as the best-fit model to represent the water levels of five wetland categories in west-central Florida, 4) representative probability models were developed and used to predict the water levels of specific wetland categories, averaging less than 10% error between the predicted and recorded water levels, and 5) last, based on this probability analysis, the various wetland categories were shown to exhibit similar means, extremes and ranges in water-level behavior but unique slopes in frequency distributions, a here to for new finding. These results suggest that wetland types may best be differentiated by the regular variability in water levels, not by the mean and/or extreme water levels. The methods and analytical techniques presented in this dissertation can be used to help understand and quantify wetland hydrology in different climatological or anthropogenic stress conditions. Also, the methods explored in this study can be used to develop more accurate and representative hydrologic simulation models.

Evaluation of an On-Farm Water Storage (OFWS) system as a Best Management Practice (BMP) for nutrient and sediment loading control and irrigation in East Mississippi has shown that the system can effectively reduce sediment and nutrient loading as it was able to capture 46 tons of sediment and 558 kg of phosphorus over the monitoring period. The system was also able to decrease nitrogen loading as shown from the nitrogen concentration in the captured storm runoff events although an accurate estimate could not be made using AnnAGNPS because adequate model input data was not available. The system was able to provide about 63 million gallons of water for irrigation as a result of which increased corn and soybean yield was also obtained in irrigated fields when compared to non-irrigated fields. Water from the storage pond used for irrigation did not have adequate nutrient recycling to reduce commercial fertilizer application.

The onarm water storage (OFWS) systems at Metcalf and Pitts farm in Porter Bayou Watershed were monitored for changes in nutrient levels and water withdrawal for irrigation from March 2012 to April 2013. Nitrogen and phosphorus levels were generally higher during the early part of the growing season. The OFWS systems can reduce nitrate and phosphorus in runoff up to 81% and 85%, respectively. However, the systems did not consistently reduce sediment and nutrients especially after significant rainfall and runoff events. The systems provided a total of 130 and 233 acreeet of recycled water for irrigating crops at Metcalf and Pitts, respectively, during the 2012 growing season. These amounts reflect significant savings in terms of groundwater. This study highlights the advantages of OFWS systems as structural BMPs to reduce nutrient loading into the Gulf of Mexico and to minimize groundwater withdrawals from the Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer.