- Description
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Mean annual (00) and monthly (01…12) transpiration (mm) from the plant canopy for the period 1980-1999.Interpretation:Canopy transpiration is far more spatially variable than potential evaporation, reflecting the effects of water limitation in most areas of the continent. Both the annual mean and seasonal pattern broadly resemble the corresponding patterns for rainfall. Canopy transpiration maps have more “contrast” (relative variation) than the total evaporation or rainfall maps because transpiration is a small component of total evaporation in areas of low plant cover (the remainder being soil evaporation).The partitioning between soil evaporation and canopy transpiration in the model is determined by leaf area index.Notes: These are model-based estimates from the BiosEquil model. Results are given for the “BASE” (pre-1788) and “AGRIC” (present day) conditions. The “AGRIC” case includes current agricultural inputs of water from irrigation.EvapCanopy.00.Agric, EvapCanopy.01.Agric … EvapCanopy.12.Agric – Mean annual and monthly canopy transpiration (mm) in the “AGRIC” (present day) scenarioEvapCanopy.00.Base, EvapCanopy.01.Base … EvapCanopy.12.Base – Mean annual and monthly canopy transpiration (mm) in the “BASE” (pre-1788) scenarioData is in geographics and GDA94.
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- Date Published
- 1 June 2000
- Date Updated
- 1 October 2010
- Update Frequency
- Not specified
Dataset Information
- data.gov.au Category
- Geography, Sciences
- Keywords / Tags
- geoscientific information, maps, models, Vegetation
- Licence
- Constraints
- Permalink
- http://data.gov.au/4433
Contributing Agency Information
- Agency
- Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (View all datasets from Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry)
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Agency Program
- Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Dataset Coverage
- Temporal Coverage
- 2001
- Geospatial Coverage
- Australia
- Granularity
- Not specified
