Ground evaporation formula (Water Overlay)

Conceptually, water can evaporate from the ground via crop, tree and plant foliage. This is called evapotranspiration. The amount a plant can evaporate depends on the saturation and ground water level, as well as the root structure. The factor by which roots can extract water from the ground is modeled using the Feddes trapezium.

Feddes trapezium indicating for what water levels and by what factor roots of a plant can extract water from the ground.

The amount a plant, crop or tree evaporates also depends on its growth season. Therefore, the species specific Water evaporation function value can be set as four seasonal values.

Last but not least, the calculated evapotranspiration factor is multiplied with the evaporation amount at time $t$, which is configured for a Weather.

The evaporated amount is first drawn from the unsaturated zone and then, when the expected amount is not yet reached, from the saturated zone.

Formulas

This evaporation is calculated per cell. For all ground evaporation calculation, the ground water depth at time t is used.

$d_{gw,t}=B_{c}-w_{g,t}$

Feddes oxygen stress factor:

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Feddes saturated zone root update factor:

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Seasonal transpiration factor:

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Max potential evaporation:

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Evaporation unsaturated:

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Potential evaporation saturated:

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Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle d_{r} = max( 0.0 , w_{g,t} - ( B_{c} - d_{r,1} ))}

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_{p,s} = (E_{max} - E_{u}) \cdot f_s}

Evaporation saturated zone:

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Evaporation total is the sum of evaporation in the saturated and unsaturated zone:

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where

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Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle d_{gw,t}} = the depth of the ground water level, which is equal to the column height of the unsaturated zone at time t.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_{ts,c}} = the transpiration factor at current season c, of the buildings (plants) on the surface, or the surface terrain's transpiration factor if none present.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_{ts,n}} = the transpiration factor at coming season n, of the buildings (plants) on the surface, or the surface terrain's transpiration factor if none present.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_{se,t}} = Season fraction. Used for interpolating the transpiration factor.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_{ts,t}} = Can be supplied as four values; it is an interpolated value based on the current and next season.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle e_{w,t}} = the evaporation rate of the weather at time t

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_o} = the calculated feddes oxygen stress factor, calculated using the 3rd and 4th root depths and the feddes trapezium interpolation model and the ground water depth.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_s} = the calculated feddes saturated zone root update factor, calculated using the 1st and 2nd root depths and the feddes trapezium interpolation model and the ground water depth.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle d_{b,c}} = The ground bottom distance of the cell c, defined by a Bottom distance prequel or a general GROUND_BOTTOM_DISTANCE_M of the Water Overlay.

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Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h_u} = the amount of water in the unsaturated zone.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_{max}} = the potential max evaporation

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_{u}} = the evaporation in the unsaturated zone

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Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f_{ws}} = The WATER_STORAGE_PERCENTAGE of the ground terrain type, used here as a fraction.

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_{s}} = the evaporation in the saturated zone

$E_{g}$ = the total evaporation from the ground.

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Evaporation model (Water Overlay)

Notes

• The ground water level cannot be lowered further than the defined root depth by evapotranspiration.

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