New empirical formula for hourly estimations of reference evapotranspiration

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 157-180

  Alexandris, S ^a   Kerkides, P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Empirical method; Hourly reference evapotranspiration; Meteorological factors; Penman Monteith; Trend surface analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA REDUCTION; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; POLYNOMIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

TRANSPIRATION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODELING; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION;

EID: 0037690873     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(02)00172-5     Document Type: Article

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