if you have soil moisture storage at depth (10cm), precipitation, infiltration and runoff value. you can calculate evapotranspiration for catchment?

do you agree with this procedure.

or this procedure is wrong?!!!

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1.     Infiltration rate during rainfall event expressed by runoff subtraction from rainfall event according to (Butterworth et al, 1999).

If= P-R .......... (1)

2.     The mass balance for infiltration may be expressed by the change in storage over a given period of time, where ∆SMsat-pre equals the difference between the inflow rate infiltration If in (∆t), and outflow rate infiltration, If out (∆t) by TRENT UNIVERSITY STAFF, so  If out (∆t) expressed in follow equation:

If out (∆t) = If in (∆t) - ∆SMsat-pre …………. (2)

Where:

If out (∆t) = outflow rate infiltration (mm/day)

If in (∆t) = inflow rate infiltration (mm/day)

∆SMpre-sat = difference between soil moisture content pre rainfall event and during rainfall event at saturation condition (mm).

3-The hydrologic processes in both catchments model include infiltration, runoff, soil evaporation, plant transpiration, and deep drainage. From the previous steps, the outflow infiltration considered as a deep percolation, so we can calculate soil catchment evaporation during 24 hr by root zone water balance equation (Lu Zhang et al., 2002):

Epan = (P + θSMpre.) – (Dp + Q + θSMaft.24hr) ………. (3)

Where:

Epan = Soil catchment evaporation (mm/hr).

P = rainfall event (mm/hr).

θSMpre. = Soil moisture content before rainfall event (mm/hr).

Dp = Deep percolation   (mm/hr).

Q = runoff event (mm/hr).

θSMaft.24hr. = Soil moisture content after 24 hr from rainfall event (mm/hr).

4.     Allen et al. (1998) equation used to calculated daily potential evapotranspiration used daily reference soil evaporation corrected by pan coefficient factor (0.65 – 0.70) related to region, as follow:

ETo = Kpan × Epan ……………. (4)

Where:

ETo = reference evapotranspiration (mm/day).

Kpan = pan coefficient factor (0.65 – 0.70).

Epan = pan evaporation (mm/day).

5. 

after them by water balance equation we calculate ground water recharge ?!

  (P) = (Q + ET ± ∆GW ± ∆SM) .

Where:

P = Precipitation rate in (mm).

Q = Stream flow (mm/sec).

ET = Evapotranspiration rate (mm).

∆GW = Ground water storage changes in (mm).

∆SM = Change in soil moisture content (mm).

Sarbast I. Abdi

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