Measuring evapotranspiration on islands!

[Nicole Armbruester <nicole.armbruester@mail.uni-oldenburg.de>]

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SOWACS members,

My name is Nicole Armbrüster from the Department of Plantecology of the
University of Oldenburg (Germany). This year we started a project to
estimate the evapotranspiration on two Eastfrisian Islands in the North
Sea.
Now my question is, if somebody has any experiences in measuring
evapotranspiration of dune vegetation on islands already?
At the moment our plan is to solve this problem by using
micrometeorological data and lysimeters (not weighable), with
temperature-sensors and Theta-probes (FDR).
Is it possible to use the Penman-Monteith-equation to estimate
evapotranspiration of hilly areas or which other possibilities exist?
Which experiences with FDR in the field do you have?

Thanks in advance,

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Nicole Armbrüster

Universität Oldenburg
Fachbereich 7/ Pflanzenökologie
Carl-von-Ossietzky Str. 9-11
26111 Oldenburg

Tel: 0441 / 771 79
Fax: 0441 / 798-3331
e-mail: nicole.armbruester@mail.uni-oldenburg.de

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