Complementary relationship between daily evaporation in the environment and pan evaporation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kahler, David M ^a,b   Brutsaert, Wilfried ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE LAND SURFACE CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT (ISLSCP); NEGATIVE TREND; PAN EVAPORATION; TIMESCALE;

WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; WATER RESOURCES;

EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; LITTLE WASHITA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745450769     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004541     Document Type: Article

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