Episode 45: The role of cost-effective ET data in mitigating water shortages

What do you do when you need a direct measurement of the water flux occurring within and around your plants but do not have the funding for eddy covariance systems? Postdoc at UC Berkley, Tianxin "Carlos" Wang, has been on the hunt for an affordable way to measure sensible and latent heat exchanges to enable more people around the world to manage water usage effectively without complex and expensive instruments. In this episode, Carlos discusses his research evaluating the accuracy and convenience of methods for utilizing the variance-Bowen ratio.