Modeling reference evapotranspiration over complex terrains from minimum climatological data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Diodato, Nazzareno ^a   Bellocchi, Gianni ^b  

^a Monte Pino Research Observatory   (Italy)

^b Azienda Agraria Abbadia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MODEL;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATION THEORY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347263393     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005405     Document Type: Article

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