Spatiotemporal dynamics of evapotranspiration at the Glacial Ridge prairie restoration in northwestern Minnesota

Melesse, Assefa M.; Oberg, Jason W.; Nangia, Vijay; Beeri, Ofer; Baumgartner, David M.

doi:10.1002/hyp.5960

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“…Various researchers have used remote sensing tools to estimate wetland evapotranspiration and energy fluxes in various regions of the world [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. A healthy wetland area will be fully or partially inundated for most of the year.…”

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Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery

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Evapotranspiration is a reliable indicator of wetland health. Wetlands are an important and valuable ecosystem on the South Florida landscape. Accurate wetland Actual Evapotranspiration (AET) data can be used to evaluate the performance of South Florida's Everglades restoration programs. However, reliable AET measurements rely on scattered point measurements restricting applications over a larger area. The objective of this study was to validate the ability of the Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEB) approach and the Simple Method (also called the Abtew Method) to provide large area AET estimates for wetland recovery efforts. The study used Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor spectral data and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) solar radiation data to derive weekly AET values for South Florida. The SSEB-Simple Method approach provided acceptable results with good agreement with observed values during the critical dry season period, when cloud cover was low (rave (n = 59) = 0.700, pave < 0.0005), but requires further refinement to be viable for yearly estimates because of poor performance during wet season months, mainly because of cloud contamination. The approach can be useful for short-term wetland recovery assessment projects that occur during the dry season and/or long term projects that compare site AET rates from dry season to dry season. OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2015, 7 3614

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Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery

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“…Between 2006 and 2011, five master's theses resulted from work in site including restoration topics such as vegetation recovery [28,35], amphibian reproduction [37], and water quality [38,39]. In addition, peer-reviewed articles have documented aspects of the water budget [29,30,[40][41][42], invasive species [26,43], restoration techniques [31], and partnerships [44] at Glacial Ridge. These publications set the stage for future work and long-term investigation.…”

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Talking Big: Lessons Learned from a 9000 Hectare Restoration in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie

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Large tracts (>1000 ha) of prairie are essential to the sustainability of grassland ecosystem services, yet in many ecoregions only small fragments remain. Glacial Ridge is among the largest prairie-wetland restorations ever attempted. Started in 2000, the 9000 ha project in northwest Minnesota, USA, was initiated to reconnect 14 small tallgrass prairie remnants. In all, 15,200 ha of contiguous habitat comprise the project's direct accomplishment. We created a partnership of more than 30 organizations, filled 177 km of drainage ditch, restored 1240 ha of wetland, and replanted 8100 ha. Flooding has been mitigated, water quality improved, and native vegetation reestablished. Animals not documented for decades have again occupied the site. Despite these accomplishments, the project would have been unnecessary if the land had been purchased in the 1970s, prior to conversion to agriculture, at one-tenth the restoration cost. Our challenges related to funding, differences in partners' restoration philosophy, community concerns about floods and tax losses, difficulties in obtaining seed, and follow-up management of invasive weeds. We summarize the restoration process and share basic principles that will help others to develop large-scale prairie restoration projects in the future. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2012, 4 3067

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“…The single-source models were used relatively widely in hydro-meteorological fields due to their simplicity. For example, the SEBAL model can estimate actual ET by computing the different variables of the energy balance of the land surface [27][28][29]. The modified single-source models such as SEBS can adjust the differences between aerodynamic and radiometric surface temperatures in partial vegetation cover by employing physical models of soil-canopy heat exchange instead of separation of canopy and soil as two source terms [30].…”

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Distribution of Actual Evapotranspiration over Qaidam Basin, an Arid Area in China

2013

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Evapotranspiration is a major loss flux of the water balance in arid and semi-arid areas. The estimation of actual evapotranspiration has significance for hydrological and environmental purposes. The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) algorithm was applied to estimate actual evapotranspiration in the Qaidam Basin and its eight hydrological sub-regions, Northwest China. There were 3,036 cloud-free and atmospherically corrected MODIS satellite images from 2001 to 2011 used in the SEBS algorithm to determine the actual evapotranspiration. The result indicated that the estimated annual actual evapotranspiration of the basin increased with time and the value varied from 72.7 to 182.3 mm. SEBS estimates were 7.5% and 14.1% of observed pan evaporation over the western and eastern areas, respectively. The variation of SEBS actual evapotranspiration is influenced by climate factors, vegetation, net radiation, land cover type and water table depth. The analysis of the evaporative behavior of different land cover types in the basin presented that water bodies, marsh, and farmland had relatively higher mean actual evapotranspiration though these land cover types make up less than 3.5% of the total basin. Bare soil has very low evapotranspiration and covered almost 60% of the study area. The actual evapotranspiration was observed to be decreased with an increase of water table depth. Overall, the SEBS algorithm proved to be useful and has potential for estimating spatial actual evapotranspiration on a regional scale.

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of evapotranspiration at the Glacial Ridge prairie restoration in northwestern Minnesota

Cited by 26 publications

References 16 publications

Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery

Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery

Talking Big: Lessons Learned from a 9000 Hectare Restoration in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie

Distribution of Actual Evapotranspiration over Qaidam Basin, an Arid Area in China

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