Evaporation estimation of Rift Valley lakes: Comparison of models

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9603-9615

  Melesse, Assefa M ^a   Abtew, Wossenu ^b   Dessalegne, Tibebe ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^c BEM Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Evapotranspiration; Remote sensing; Rift valley lakes; Simple method; Surface energy balance

Indexed keywords

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; REMOTE SENSING APPROACHES; RIFT VALLEY LAKES; SIMPLE METHOD; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ARID REGIONS; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER SUPPLY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950263729     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s91209603     Document Type: Article

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