seasonal variations of climatic parameters are significant in arid and semi-arid regions and sensitivity of each parameter may differ in different seasons. no work has been done in this regard in iran. therefore, in this study, sensitivity analysis of the asce-penman-monteith grass reference evapotranspiration (eto) equation was investigated on the basis of variation of mean air temperature (tm...

Several studies have projected increases in drought severity, extent and duration in many parts of the world under climate change. We examine sources of uncertainty arising from the methodological choices for the assessment of future drought risk in the continental US (CONUS). One such uncertainty is in the climate models' expression of evaporative demand (E0), which is not a direct climate mod...

the goal of this study was to estimate the sensitivity of reference evapotranspiration (et0) to changes in meteorological parameters in the caspian region. long-term meteorological data (1961-2008) were obtained from three synoptic meteorological stations. the region was primarily classified into three climatic zones, based on de martonne climate classification. the penman–monteith equation was...

We developed and tested a methodology to estimate olive (Olea europaea L.) gross primary production (GPP) combining ground and multi-sensor satellite data. An eddy-covariance station placed in an olive grove in central Italy provided carbon and water fluxes over two years (2010–2011), which were used as reference to evaluate the performance of a GPP estimation methodology based on a Monteith ty...

We present an approach for the calibration of simplified evaporation model parameters based on optimization against most complex estimation, i.e., Penman–Monteith equation. This computes from several input quantities, such as air temperature, wind speed, heat storage, net radiation etc. However, sometimes all these values are not available, therefore we must use models. Our interest in free wat...

A escassez de recursos hídricos é o fator mais limitante da produção agrícola no município Estreito, MA. irregularidade na distribuição das chuvas durante ano, característica regiões tropicais, faz com que a atividade em assim como outras cidades do estado Maranhão reduzam época seca. Diante desse cenário, busca por meios visem melhorar eficiência irrigação para gerenciamento sustentável água s...

an accurate determination of evapotranspiration is required for many studies that involve estimation of the water balance. one methodology is the use of lysimeters. considering the semiarid climate of kerman province, in southeastern parts of iran, the only operating electronic weighing lysimeter in the country was used for calculating daily eto from april 2004 to march 2005 in three different ...