Evaluation and calibration of simple methods for daily reference evapotranspiration estimation in humid East China

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 845-858

  Xu, Junzeng ^a   Peng, Shizhang ^a   Ding, Jiali ^b   Wei, Qi ^a   Yu, Yanmei ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bureau of Water Conservancy   (China)

Author keywords

Hargreaves Samani; humid region; Penman Monteith; Priestley Taylor; reference evapotranspiration; Turc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878782467     PISSN: 03650340     EISSN: 14763567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2012.683425     Document Type: Article

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