The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems Western USA, leading reduced availability these already water-scarce regions. This study compared water-balance characteristics two adjacent semiarid watersheds central Oregon, USA: one dominated by big western juniper. Precipitation, springflow,...

Knowing the rate of evapotranspiration (ET) from surface water resources such as lakes and reservoirs is essential for the precise management of water balance. Ardestan city with hot and dry climate is in Isfahan province (center of Iran), so in this region, water is very important. In this study, monthly ET was determined by several methods and equations for Ardestan city from 1993-2006. Month...

The FAO-56 Penman–Monteith (PM) equation is regarded as the most accurate to estimate reference evapotranspiration (ETo). However, it requires a broad range of data that may not be available or reasonable quality. In this study, nine temperature-based methods were assessed for ETo estimation during irrigation at fourteen locations distributed through hot-summer Mediterranean climate region Alen...

The evapotranspiration rate has a vital role in agricultural water management. In this paper, ability of Box-Jenkins models in forecasting the reference potential evapotranspiration is estimated. For this purpose meteorological data of Mehrabad synoptic station in Tehran was selected. Using this data and according to eight famous evapotranspiration equations amounts of evapotranspiration were f...

Estimating daily evapotranspiration is challenging when ground observation data are not available or scarce. Remote sensing can be used to estimate the meteorological data necessary for calculating reference evapotranspiration ETo. Here, we assessed the accuracy of daily ETo estimates derived from remote sensing (ETo-RS) compared with those derived from four ground-based stations (ETo-G) in Kur...

Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations have high water consumption through evapotranspiration, which can contribute to scarcity. In addition, there is a lack of spatial observation data and estimation methods for evapotranspiration (ET) rubber plantations. To alleviate the stress expanding caused by seasonal drought in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, an up 7 days crop (ETc) forecast method, “K...

Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is vital for water resource development, planning and management, particularly in the present global warming context. A large number empirical ET models have been developed estimating ET. The main limitations this method are that it requires several meteorological variables an extensive data span to comprehend pattern accurately, which not availabl...

A new multiscale Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) dataset is provided for a reference period (1960–1999) and two future time horizons (2040–2079) (2060–2099). The historical forcing based on combined climate observations reanalysis (WATer global CHange Forcing Dataset), the projections are fed by Fast Track experiment of Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Proj...