"It is not really a world-time watch because certain fractional time zones are not reflected, like the half time zones in India," he said.
Fractional time zones, like the one chosen by Mr. Chávez, or the disruptions caused by countries that wish to adopt or ignore daylight saving time, will always threaten to spoil the game.
The low water storage capacity (47% soil fractional root-zone water storage, Palmer et al., 2009) of the soil, in combination with the low rainfall and high evaporative demand over spring and summer, typically results in severe seasonal soil water deficits in summer.
The periportal zone fractional size at the Nmax limit reduces from 26.8% for a cell monolayer to 22.1% for a double layer, or from 44.9% to 33.1% at the Nmin limit.
The fractional available root-zone water storage and the maximum available root-zone water storage were then determined from these data.
Fractional available root-zone water storage was determined from these data and the maximum available root-zone water storage, W max, as W/W max.
Fractional available root-zone water storage, Wf, was determined from these data and the maximum available root-zone water storage, Wmax, as W/Wmax.
a Modelled (open circles) and measured (filled red triangles) fractional available root-zone water content are shown.
Fig. 1 Seasonal variation during the 2014/2015 monitoring period in (a) fractional available root-zone water content, b rainfall and c predicted drainage.
