Application of a two‐source model for partitioning evapotranspiration and assessing its controls in temperate grasslands in central Japan

Partitioning of evapotranspiration ( ET ) into soil evaporation and vegetation transpiration ( T ) is important for predicting the response of ecosystem water/energy budgets to climatic change. In this study, a new two‐source model of water and energy fluxes was developed and used to partition ET for a temperate–grassland ecosystem in central Japan, throughout a growing season. The Newton–Raphson iteration scheme was employed to solve the...