Abstract:Crop minimum canopy resistance is the crop canopy bulk stomatal resistance to vapor transfer at potential transpiration. It is an important parameter for studying energy balance and vapor transfer in agricultural ecosystem. In practice, crop canopy is generally treated as a complete homogeneous canopy with the properties of a single “big leaf”. The minimum canopy resistance can therefore be estimated indirectly through simple spatial scaling from minimum leaf stomatal resistance, or via the inversion of ene...