Evapotranspiration estimation from infrared surface temperature. I: The performance of the flux equation

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 591-598

  Alves, I ^b   Fontes, J C ^c   Pereira, L S ^a,b  

^a ASAE ^*

^b Centre of Agricultural Engineering Research   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Sensible heat flux; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CROPS; HEAT FLUX; PLANTS (BOTANY); THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EID: 0034190670     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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