Comparison of three data-driven techniques in modelling the evapotranspiration process

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 365-379

  El Baroudy, I ^a   Elshorbagy, A ^a   Carey, S K ^b   Giustolisi, O ^c   Savic, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actual evapotranspiration; Data driven techniques; Eddy covariance; Evolutionary polynomial regression; Genetic programming; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049362919     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2010.029     Document Type: Article

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