Abstract
Agriculturally used wet grassland sites (WGSs) with shallow water tables are considered to be sites with a special microclimate. Meteorological measurement series, examining the air temperature (Ta) and vapour pressure (VP) in three regions, reveal differences between WGSs and outside the lowland. The results show that the average annual Ta at all three WGSs is significantly lower than in their surrounding area (0.7 to 1.0 K). The differences are minimally larger in the summer half-year than in the winter half-year (1.0 vs. 0.7 K in the Spreewald region, 0.7 vs. 0.6 K in the Havelland region). The differences cannot only be explained by higher evapotranspiration (ET), but are mainly due to the ground heat balance of the sites with shallow water tables and organic soils. The VPs of the WGSs and the surrounding area only differ significantly from each other in the summer months and do not vary as clearly as the Ta. While the VP is higher in the Spreewald wetland than in the surrounding area (+0.05 kPa), it is lower in Paulinenaue than in that surrounding area (−0.04 kPa). The reason for this is different ET due to the different site conditions.
Funder
Leibniz Open Access Publishing Fund
Subject
Water Science and Technology,Aquatic Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Biochemistry
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