GIS-aided evaluation of evapotranspiration at multiple spatial and temporal climate patterns using geoindicators

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1009-1016

  Diodato, Nazzareno ^a,b   Ceccarelli, Michele ^a   Bellocchi, Gianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b Met European Research Observatory   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Geoindicators; GIS; Radial Basis Function; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; AUXILIARY VARIABLES; BASELINE ESTIMATION; BASIN SCALE; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE PATTERNS; CO-LOCATED; GIS; GROWING SEASON; MACRO SCALE; MOUNTAINOUS BASINS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; SCALE PATTERN; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION; SOIL WATER; SOUTHERN ITALY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL STATISTICS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEST SITE; UPSCALING;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS;

WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GIS; GROWING SEASON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; TAMMARO RIVER;

EID: 77951142388     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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