A SEMIEMPIRICAL MODEL OF BARE SOIL EVAPORATION FOR CROP SIMULATION MODELS

In crop simulation models the water subroutine computes evaporation and transpiration separately. This property allows a greater confidence in the simulation of the early crop stages in terms of water requirements. In the present article the authors suggest a semiempirical model of the drying stage of soil evaporation that can be easily integrated into various crop models. The model is based on a physical approach, yet it depends solely on permanent soil properties and on some key data on the local climate. The basic theory relies upon the mass balance of a dry surface layer of varying thickness. After successive assumptions on the main limiting factors of the drying process, the authors demonstrate that this process can be described by one equation relating actual to potential evaporation. The advantage of this formula comes from its introducing just one synthetic parameter that can be expressed as the product of two components: a climatic one and a pedological one. When compared with experimental data, the results of the model show that the order of magnitude of the evaporative process is respected, which is required for crop models.

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