703 Sixty Years of the Penman Equation to Calculate ET/Div. A03 Business Meeting

Oral Session
A03 Agroclimatology & Agronomic Modeling
Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 12:55 PM-5:30 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 362DE

Presiding:
Robert Lascano and John Angus
12:55 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:00 PM
Howard Penman: A Sower of Ideas.
Cornelius H. M. van Bavel, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University
1:30 PM
Evapotranspiration: Measured with a Lysimeter vs. Calculated with a Recursive Method.
Robert Lascano, USDA-ARS, Cropping Systems Res. Lab.; Steven Evett, USDA-ARS, Conservation and Production Res. Lab.; Cornelius H. M. van Bavel, Professor Emeritus - Texas A&M University
1:45 PM
Two- and One-layer Implicit Energy Balance Solutions Compared with the One-layer Explicit Penman-Monteith Solution for Evapotranspiration of Alfalfa.
Steven Evett, Conservation and Production Research Laboratory; Terry Howell, USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory; Robert Lascano, USDA-ARS, Cropping Systems Res. Lab.; Judy Tolk, USDA-ARS, Conservation and Production Res. Lab.
2:00 PM
Application of the Penman-Monteith Equation under Contrasting Climate Conditions.
Matthias Langensiepen, Humboldt-University of Berlin; Marcel Fuchs, Agricultural Research Organization; Homero Bergamaschi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Samuel Moreshet, Agricultural Research Organization of the Israel Ministy of Agriculture; Yehezkel Cohen, Agricultural Research Organisation of the Israel Ministry of Agriculture; Shabtai Cohen, Agricultural Research Organization of the Israel Ministry of Agriculture; Peter Wolff, University of Kassel; Samuel C. Jutzi, FAO Headquarters; Louis M. G. Rosa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Agronomia; Yan Li, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography
2:15 PM
Estimating the Water Cost of Winter Cover Crops.
John Baker, USDA-ARS; Tyson E. Ochsner, USDA-ARS; Tim Griffis, Univ. of Minnesota
2:30 PM
Evapotranspiration and Soil Water Balance for Corn in a Perennial Living Mulch.
Tyson E. Ochsner, USDA-ARS; Kenneth Albrecht, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; John Baker, USDA-ARS
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Estimating Plant Transpiration and Soil Evaporation Using Remote Sensing.
Stephan Maas, Texas Tech University; Nithya Rajan, Texas Tech University
3:15 PM
Comparison Between BIOTIC Irrigation Scheduling and a Recursive ET Method.
James Mahan, USDA/ARS; Robert Lascano, USDA-ARS, Cropping Systems Res. Lab.; Steven Evett, Conservation and Production Research Laboratory
3:30 PM
Transpiration Quantified by Sap Flow Heat Gauges and the Penman-Monteith Equation.
Robert Aiken, Kansas State University; Norman Klocke, Kansas State Univ.
3:45 PM
Cotton Crop Coefficients via Lysimeters in Northeast Louisiana.
Sean Hribal, LSU AgCenter; Ernest Clawson, LSU AgCenter
4:00 PM
Comparing Potential Evapotranspiration and Pan Evaporation at Several Research Stations in Western China.
Yi Li, Northwest Sci-Tech Agriculture and Forestry University; Robert Horton, Iowa State Univ.
4:15 PM
Discussion
4:30 PM
Div. A03 Business Meeting
5:30 PM
Adjourn