Estimation of long-term basin scale evapotranspiration from streamflow time series

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Palmroth, Sari ^a   Katul, Gabriel G ^a   Hui, Dafeng ^b   McCarthy, Heather R ^c   Jackson, Robert B ^a   Oren, Ram ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN SCALE; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; COUPLED ELEMENT; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INVERSE CORRELATION; LAND COVER; NEUSE RIVER; NORTH CAROLINA , USA; PAN EVAPORATION; RESERVOIR MODELS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; WATER BALANCE; WATERSHED SCALE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER SUPPLY;

WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

NEUSE BASIN; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958492704     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008838     Document Type: Article

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71. D. Hui, Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37209, USA. (dhui@tnstate.edu )
72. R. B. Jackson, Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708, USA. (jackson@duke.edu )
73. G. G. Katul, R. Oren, and S. Palmroth, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, USA. (gaby@duke.edu; ramoren@duke.edu; sari.palmroth@duke.edu
74. H. R. McCarthy, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, 2224 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. (heather.mccarthy@uci.edu)