Modeling potential evapotranspiration of two forested watersheds in the southern appalachians

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2067-2078

  Rao, L Y ^a   Sun, G ^b   Ford, C R ^b   Vose, J M ^b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

FAO 56 grass reference ET; Forest potential evapotranspiration; Hamon equation; Priestley Taylor equation

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; CLIMATIC DATA; CONIFER PLANTATIONS; CORRECTION FACTORS; DIRECT IMPACT; FAO-56 GRASS REFERENCE ET; FORESTED WATERSHEDS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HAMON EQUATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL DATA; MONTHLY SCALE; MULTIPLE SCALE; NET RADIATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR; PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR EQUATION; STANDARD METHOD; TEMPORAL SCALE; WATERSHED HYDROLOGY; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

REFORESTATION;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CORRECTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESTED CATCHMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NET RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; WATERSHED;

APPALACHIANS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84855608155     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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