Figure 1

Seasonal ancillary monitoring at the experimental site: (a) climatic data (RH, relative humidity in %, Tair, air temperature); (b) evapotranspiration (ET0 and ETa, respectively the cumulative reference ET and the daily ET measured by eddy covariance (EC) system) rates measured by the EC system; (c) computed surface energy fluxes (Rn, net radiation; H, sensible heat flux; LE, latent heat flux, and G, soil heat flux; W.m⁻²); (d) SWC measured by FDR at 0.3 m at T1 and T2 (East and Ouest) below the surface, and corresponding rainfall events; and (e) SWC measured by TDR at different depths (in T1).