How I used pyfao56 - weighing lysimeter analysis #61
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Hello Everyone,
My name is A.J. Brown, Agricultural Data Scientist at Colorado State University. I just wanted to briefly chime in with an example of how
pyfao56
has been useful for me in my own research.lysimeter-analysis
For those of you who may not be familiar, a weighing lysimeter is an in-ground soil monolith that is placed within an environment such that it mimics its surroundings, but is weighed continuously. Such a device allows users to directly quantify actual evapotranspiration (ETa) by using the changes in weights to form a water balance in the profile. These ETa data can be related to reference ET values (ETr) to create localized crop coefficients (Kc).
I created a python module,
lysimeter-analysis
, that attempts to automate these processes for lysimeters that CSU maintains at the Arkansas Valley Research Center in Rocky Ford, CO., hoping that others may also find it useful. I allow users to input their own weather data necessary to calculate ETr viapyfao56
.The module is currently in a beta-testing phase with very promising results but will be fully released on PyPI once sufficient validation is shown comparing it to existing methods.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about it, feel free to respond to this discussion or contact me directly.
Cheers!
-AJ
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