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Southern Sierra Annual Meeting Critical Zone Tree (CZT-1) Update. Hopmans , Hartsough , Malazian , Nasta , Albane , Tamir and Katya UC Davis Sept. 8, 2009. 4. MPS-1, 30cm Vertical pit, 4 MPS-1 and 4 EC5-TE probes, 15cm, 30cm, 60cm, 90cm
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Southern Sierra Annual MeetingCritical Zone Tree (CZT-1) Update Hopmans, Hartsough, Malazian, Nasta, Albane, Tamir and Katya UC Davis Sept. 8, 2009
4 MPS-1, 30cm Vertical pit, 4 MPS-1 and 4 EC5-TE probes, 15cm, 30cm, 60cm, 90cm 1½” conduit will carry wires from two transects UCM pits Tensiometers Transect radius = 5m 3 80cm N 5 2 6 1 VP1 VP2 CR1000 7 VP4 12 VP5 VP3 VP6 8 CR1000 11 Three logger boxes house 2 CR1000s, 6 mulitplexers and a 2 RF 450 radios 9 10
Sap flow sensors Water balance instrument clusters 50m Flux tower and Met Station 150 soil moisture and water potential sensors
150 Soil Sensors at the site Decagon Echo 5TE, MPS-1 Sensors as well as tensiometers
CZT-1 30cm Temperature Volumetric WaterContent Stem Water Potential
CZT-1 30cm Temperature Volumetric Water Content Soil Water Potential
1 mm/d 0.3 mm/d 0.5 mm/d
Comparison of tensiometer with MPS(Uncertainty is about 100 cm in wet range)
Optimization of hydraulic function parameters, by fitting measured with simulated drainage flow rates O(b) = WiQo(ti) – Qc(ti,b)2
Soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity relationships
Near-future activities planned – September 2009 • LIDAR – LAI estimates for tree canopy geometry and evapotranspiration modeling; • Install additional sapflow instrumentation • Laboratory measurements of TDR, heatpulse, electrical resistance and sapflow in destructive tree wood samples; • Evaluate soil moisture instrumentation results – EchoTE and MPS; • Coupled three-dimensional modeling of coupled soil-tree trunk system as a integrated porous domain with atmospheric boundary condition; • Measurement of soil hydrologic properties and drainage fluxes; • Collaborate with Christine on RHESsys watershed-scale modeling of soil moisture