Regionalization of the hargreaves coefficient for the assessment of distributed reference evapotranspiration in Southern Italy

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-362

  Mendicino, Giuseppe ^a   Senatore, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Daily temperature range; Evapotranspiration; Hargreaves; Regionalization; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

DAILY TEMPERATURE RANGES; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; HARGREAVES; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; REFERENCE CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGIONALIZATION; SOUTHERN ITALY;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ITALY;

EID: 84879511583     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000547     Document Type: Article

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