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Radiation, Energy, and Entropy Exchange in an Irrigated-Maize Agroecosystem in Nebraska, USA

미국 네브라스카의 관개된 옥수수 농업생태계의 복사, 에너지 및 엔트로피의 교환

  • Yang, Hyunyoung (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Indriwati, Yohana Maria (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Suyker, Andrew E. (School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) ;
  • Lee, Jihye (National Center for Agro Meteorology) ;
  • Lee, Kyung-do (National Institute of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Kim, Joon (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2019.12.07
  • Accepted : 2020.02.19
  • Published : 2020.03.30
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Abstract

An irrigated-maize agroecosystem is viewed as an open thermodynamic system upon which solar radiation impresses a large gradient that moves the system away from equilibrium. Following the imperative of the second law of thermodynamics, such agroecosystem resists and reduces the externally applied gradient by using all means of this nature-human coupled system acting together as a nonequilibrium dissipative process. The ultimate purpose of our study is to test this hypothesis by examining the energetics of agroecosystem growth and development. As a first step toward this test, we employed the eddy covariance flux data from 2003 to 2014 at the AmeriFlux NE1 irrigated-maize site at Mead, Nebraska, USA, and analyzed the energetics of this agroecosystem by scrutinizing its radiation, energy and entropy exchange. Our results showed: (1) more energy capture during growing season than non-growing season, and increasing energy capture through growing season until senescence; (2) more energy flow activity within and through the system, providing greater potential for degradation; (3) higher efficiency in terms of carbon uptake and water use through growing season until senescence; and (4) the resulting energy degradation occurred at the expense of increasing net entropy accumulation within the system as well as net entropy transfer out to the surrounding environment. Under the drought conditions in 2012, the increased entropy production within the system was accompanied by the enhanced entropy transfer out of the system, resulting in insignificant net entropy change. Drought mitigation with more frequent irrigation shifted the main route of entropy transfer from sensible to latent heat fluxes, yielding the production and carbon uptake exceeding the 12-year mean values at the cost of less efficient use of water and light.

이 연구의 목표는 관개된 옥수수 밭에서의 복사, 에너지 및 엔트로피의 교환을 평가하고 문서화하는 것이다. 열역학적 관점에서, 우리는 이 농업생태계를 태양 복사로 인해 시스템 내부와 외부 사이에 큰 경도(gradient)가 부여되는 열린 열역학적 시스템으로 간주하였다. 따라서 시스템이 평형에서 멀어질 때, 열역학적 원칙에 따라 비평형 소산 과정(nonequilibrium dissipative process)인 이 생태-사회시스템이 모든 생물, 물리, 화학 및 인위적 구성 요소를 사용하여 태양으로부터 주어진 경도에 저항하여 이를 감소시키도록 움직인다고 가정하였다. 이 가설을 검증하기 위한 첫 단계로서 미국 네브라스카의 옥수수 밭에 위치한 AmeriFlux의 NE1 사이트에서 2003년부터 2014년까지 관측된 플럭스 및 미기상 자료를 사용하여 복사, 에너지 및 엔트로피의 교환을 정량화하였다. 12년 평균한 생장기간의 결과에 따르면, 시스템의 에너지 포획(순복사와 하향단파복사의 비, Rn/Rs↓)은 옥수수의 생장과 함께 증가하였고, 생장기간이 비생장기간보다 약 80% 높았다. 생장기간 동안 시스템 내의 엔트로피 생성(σ)은 평균 9.56 MJ m-2 K-1이었고, 주로 하향단파 복사에 의해 결정되었다. 엔트로피 수송(J)은 잠열플럭스, 순장파복사, 현열플럭스의 순으로 기여하였고, 시스템 외부 환경으로 퍼낸 양은 σ의 ~84%에 해당하는 -7.99 MJ m-2 K-1이었다. 따라서 매년 생장 기간동안 시스템 내에 순 축적된 엔트로피(dS/dt)는 1.57 MJ m-2 K-1이었다. 탄소 흡수 효율(CUE)은 1.25~1.62, 물 사용 효율(WUE)은 1.98~2.92 g C (kg H2O)-1이었고 모두 옥수수의 성장과 함께 증가하였다. 극심한 가뭄으로 관개가 더 빈번하게 행해진 2012년의 경우, σ와 J가 모두 평년보다 10% 많은 최대값을 보였고, 그 결과 서로 대부분 상쇄되어 dS/dt는 평년보다 조금 높은 수준에 머물렀다. 가뭄 중에도 빈번한 관개로 인해 엔트로피 수송의 주된 경로가 현열플럭스에서 잠열플럭스로 바뀌면서 생산량과 CUE는 평년 값을 웃돌았으나 물과 빛의 사용 효율은 오히려 낮아졌다. 이러한 결과에 근거하여 관개된 옥수수 생태-사회시스템의 지속가능성의 변화를 평가하기에는 아직 여러가지 문제가 남아있다. 자기-조직화 과정은 시스템과 주변 간의 경도를 효과적으로 감소시키는 역할을 한다. 따라서 엔트로피 자료와 함께, 지속가능성의 척도가 되는 자기-조직화 역량을 나타내는 스펙트랄 엔트로피, 또는 하부시스템의 구조 및 에너지·물질의 흐름의 강도와 방향의 변화를 가늠할 수 있는 역학적 과정망(dynamic process network) 분석 등의 추가 연구가 병행되어야 한다.

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