IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/agiwat/v163y2016icp139-145.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Crop coefficient changes with reference evapotranspiration for highly canopy-atmosphere coupled crops

Author

Listed:
  • Marin, Fábio R.
  • Angelocci, Luiz R.
  • Nassif, Daniel S.P.
  • Costa, Leandro G.
  • Vianna, Murilo S.
  • Carvalho, Kassio S.

Abstract

Despite of the great advancement of technologies for water supply, irrigation management remains inadequate in most areas. The lack of basic information on crop water needs is one of the causes for inadequate water use and irrigation management. The approach normally used to quantify the consumptive use of water by irrigated crops is the crop coefficient-reference evapotranspiration (Kc ETo) procedure. In this procedure, reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is computed for a grass or alfalfa reference crop and is then multiplied by an empirical crop coefficient (Kc) to produce an estimate of crop evapotranspiration (ETc). The ETo represents the non-stressed ET based on weather data. We selected three experiments with different crops in terms of physiology and planting arrangements to discuss the crop coefficient paradigm and its relation with reference evapotranspiration for highly canopy-atmosphere coupled crops. We found the Kc decreasing as ETo increased as a consequence of high plant atmosphere coupling and high crop inner resistance, which limits the amount of water the plant could supply to the atmosphere. Even for sugarcane plantation (after it completely covered the ground) Kc decreased with ETo, highlighting that trend might not be exclusive of tall sparse crops and for well coupled to the atmosphere. For these reasons, we suggested the definition of Kcb (for sparse crops) and Kc should take into account ETo ranges besides the components currently considered.

Suggested Citation

  • Marin, Fábio R. & Angelocci, Luiz R. & Nassif, Daniel S.P. & Costa, Leandro G. & Vianna, Murilo S. & Carvalho, Kassio S., 2016. "Crop coefficient changes with reference evapotranspiration for highly canopy-atmosphere coupled crops," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 139-145.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:163:y:2016:i:c:p:139-145
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2015.09.010
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377415301025
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.agwat.2015.09.010?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Marin, Fabio R. & Angelocci, Luiz Roberto, 2011. "Irrigation requirements and transpiration coupling to the atmosphere of a citrus orchard in Southern Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 98(6), pages 1091-1096, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xiang, Keyu & Li, Yi & Horton, Robert & Feng, Hao, 2020. "Similarity and difference of potential evapotranspiration and reference crop evapotranspiration – a review," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 232(C).
    2. Gonçalves, I.Z. & Ruhoff, A. & Laipelt, L. & Bispo, R.C. & Hernandez, F.B.T. & Neale, C.M.U. & Teixeira, A.H.C. & Marin, F.R., 2022. "Remote sensing-based evapotranspiration modeling using geeSEBAL for sugarcane irrigation management in Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 274(C).
    3. da Silva, Evandro H.F.M. & Gonçalves, Alexandre O. & Pereira, Rodolfo A. & Fattori Júnior, Izael M. & Sobenko, Luiz R. & Marin, Fábio R., 2019. "Soybean irrigation requirements and canopy-atmosphere coupling in Southern Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 1-7.
    4. Venturin, Afonso Zucolotto & Guimarães, Claudinei Martins & Sousa, Elias Fernandes de & Machado Filho, José Altino & Rodrigues, Weverton Pereira & Serrazine, Ícaro de Araujo & Bressan-Smith, Ricardo &, 2020. "Using a crop water stress index based on a sap flow method to estimate water status in conilon coffee plants," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 241(C).
    5. Wu, Dong & Fang, Shibo & Li, Xuan & He, Di & Zhu, Yongchao & Yang, Zaiqiang & Xu, Jiaxin & Wu, Yingjie, 2019. "Spatial-temporal variation in irrigation water requirement for the winter wheat-summer maize rotation system since the 1980s on the North China Plain," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 78-86.
    6. Mhawej, Mario & Nasrallah, Ali & Abunnasr, Yaser & Fadel, Ali & Faour, Ghaleb, 2021. "Better irrigation management using the satellite-based adjusted single crop coefficient (aKc) for over sixty crop types in California, USA," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 256(C).
    7. Caitlyn E. Sutherlin & Nathaniel A. Brunsell & Gabriel de Oliveira & Timothy E. Crews & Lee R. DeHaan & Giulia Vico, 2019. "Contrasting Physiological and Environmental Controls of Evapotranspiration over Kernza Perennial Crop, Annual Crops, and C 4 and Mixed C 3 /C 4 Grasslands," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-14, March.
    8. Mobe, N.T. & Dzikiti, S. & Zirebwa, S.F. & Midgley, S.J.E. & von Loeper, W. & Mazvimavi, D. & Ntshidi, Z. & Jovanovic, N.Z., 2020. "Estimating crop coefficients for apple orchards with varying canopy cover using measured data from twelve orchards in the Western Cape Province, South Africa," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    9. Feng, Xuyu & Liu, Haijun & Feng, Dongxue & Tang, Xiaopei & Li, Lun & Chang, Jie & Tanny, Josef & Liu, Ronghao, 2023. "Quantifying winter wheat evapotranspiration and crop coefficients under sprinkler irrigation using eddy covariance technology in the North China Plain," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 277(C).
    10. Machakaire, A.T.B. & Steyn, J.M. & Franke, A.C., 2021. "Assessing evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of potato in a semi-arid climate using Eddy Covariance techniques," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 255(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. França, Ana Carolina Ferreira & Coelho, Rubens Duarte & da Silva Gundim, Alice & de Oliveira Costa, Jéfferson & Quiloango-Chimarro, Carlos Alberto, 2024. "Effects of different irrigation scheduling methods on physiology, yield, and irrigation water productivity of soybean varieties," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 293(C).
    2. da Silva, Evandro H.F.M. & Gonçalves, Alexandre O. & Pereira, Rodolfo A. & Fattori Júnior, Izael M. & Sobenko, Luiz R. & Marin, Fábio R., 2019. "Soybean irrigation requirements and canopy-atmosphere coupling in Southern Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 1-7.
    3. Peddinti, Srinivasa Rao & Kambhammettu, BVN P, 2019. "Dynamics of crop coefficients for citrus orchards of central India using water balance and eddy covariance flux partition techniques," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 68-77.
    4. Gonçalves, I.Z. & Ruhoff, A. & Laipelt, L. & Bispo, R.C. & Hernandez, F.B.T. & Neale, C.M.U. & Teixeira, A.H.C. & Marin, F.R., 2022. "Remote sensing-based evapotranspiration modeling using geeSEBAL for sugarcane irrigation management in Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 274(C).
    5. Rallo, G. & Paço, T.A. & Paredes, P. & Puig-Sirera, À. & Massai, R. & Provenzano, G. & Pereira, L.S., 2021. "Updated single and dual crop coefficients for tree and vine fruit crops," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 250(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:163:y:2016:i:c:p:139-145. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/agwat .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.