Monitoring dryland energy and water dynamics in India: an analysis of COSMOS-India and flux tower observations

Thornton, Jenna; Cooper, Hollie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1382-3407; Morrison, Ross; Evans, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-1416; Taylor, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0120-3198; Ball, Lucy; Jenkins, Alan; Muddu, Sekhar; Angadi, S.S.; Tripathi, Sachi; Krishnan, Mithun; George, Geet; Turner, Andrew. 2017 Monitoring dryland energy and water dynamics in India: an analysis of COSMOS-India and flux tower observations. [Poster] In: 5th iLEAPS Science Conference, Oxford, UK, 11-14 Sept 2017. (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

Small changes in precipitation and temperature can dramatically influence surface energy and water budgets in semi-arid regions. Quantifying land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks in these areas is crucial to understanding global water and carbon cycles, for the development and testing of land surface, weather prediction and climate models, as well as for monitoring local water resources and agricultural output. We report the results of co-located observations of land surface water and energy fluxes and large-area soil moisture dynamics obtained at three study sites located across India. These sites were instrumented as part of the INCOMPASS (INteraction of Convective Organisation with Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea) and COSMOS-India projects. Two sites are located on contrasting red (Alfisols) and black (Vertisols) soils on the Deccan Plateau. A third site is installed on alluvial soils (Fluvisols) on the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Each site consists of an eddy covariance flux tower providing measurements of sensible (H) and latent heat (LE) fluxes, micrometeorology and soil physics, in combination with a COSMOS (COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System) sensor that provides spatially-integrated measurements of soil water content at field scale. In this presentation, we report on feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere, with a specific focus on the evaporative fraction (EF=LE/LE+H), precipitation and time varying soil moisture dynamics. CEH: Ross Morrison, Jonathan Evans, Chris Taylor, Lucy Ball, Alan Jenkins, Hollie Cooper, Jenna Thornton. IISc (Indian Institute of Science): Sekhar Muddu. University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad: S.S. Angadi. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur: Sachi Tripathi, Mithun Krishnan, Geet George. University of Reading: Andrew G. Turner.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Poster)
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-) Water Resources (Science Area 2017-) Directors, SCs
Additional Keywords:	soil moisture, water dynamics, flux, eddy covariance, monsoon, micrometeorology
NORA Subject Terms:	Hydrology Agriculture and Soil Science Meteorology and Climatology Atmospheric Sciences
Related URLs:	Other
Date made live:	19 Dec 2017 14:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518730

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