Balan?o de energia e estimativa da evapotranspira??o em culturas irrigadas de maracujazeiro pelo método da raz?o de Bowen

摘要

Passionfruit crop has been having great expansion in the cultivated area of S?o Paulo State and beside the irrigation importance for crop; there are few studies about its utilization. This work was carried out at the experimental irrigation farm of the Engineering Department - College of Agriculture "Luiz de Queiroz" - ESALQ/USP, in Piracicaba, S?o Paulo State, Brazil. Were collected micrometeorological data from net radiation, soil flux heat, temperature and vapor pressure gradient with the aim to evaluate the partition of available energy and evapotranspiration of passionfruit crop planted under two row directions (North-South and East-West). The Bowen ratio method was used to determine both sensible and latent fluxes. The net radiation was not influenced by row directions, being 60% of global radiation. The latent heat of evaporation played the major role on energy balance and values more significantly happened immediately after a rainfall or irrigation. The estimative of evapotranspiration has improved when the interval that Bowen ratio fails were excluded.