Dependence of evaporation on meteorological variables at different time-scales and intercomparison of estimation methods

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 429-442

  Xu, C Y ^a   Singh, V P ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation methods; Evaporation; Meteorological variables; Pan evaporation; Time scale

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; WIND SPEED;

EVAPORATION;

EID: 0032026364     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(19980315)12:3<429::aid-hyp581>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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