Standardized ASCE Penman-Monteith: Impact of sum-of-hourly vs. 24-hour timestep computations at reference weather station sites

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1063-1077

  Irmak, S ^a   Howell, T A ^b   Allen, R G ^c   Payero, J O ^d   Martin, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Agriculture Research Service   (United States)

^c University of Idaho   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Penman Monteith; Sum of hourly; Weather station

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA REDUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; STANDARDIZATION; WIND;

PENMAN-MONTEITH; SUM-OF-HOURLY; WEATHER STATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 23744466561     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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