On evapotranspiration and shallow groundwater fluctuations: A Fourier-based improvement to the White method

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Soylu, Mehmet Evren ^a,b   Lenters, John D ^a   Istanbulluoglu, Erkan ^c   Loheide, Steven P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVE; FOURIER METHODS; FOURIER TECHNIQUES; GROUNDWATER CONSUMPTION; HYDROGRAPHS; MOVING WINDOW; NEBRASKA; NEW MEXICO; PHRAGMITES; POPULUS; RIO GRANDE; RIPARIAN AREAS; RIPARIAN SYSTEMS; RIPARIAN WETLAND; RIPARIAN ZONES; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SINE FUNCTIONS; SOLAR RADIATION DATA; WATER AND ENERGIES; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WHITE METHODS;

ENERGY BALANCE; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SUN; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

GROUNDWATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CLEAR SKY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPH; RIPARIAN ZONE; SHALLOW WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER TABLE; WATER USE;

NEBRASKA; NEW MEXICO; RIO GRANDE BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POPULUS; TAMARIX CHINENSIS;

EID: 84862224770     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010964     Document Type: Article

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