Evaluation of Radiation-Based Reference Evapotranspiration Models Under Different Mediterranean Climates in Central Greece

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 207-225

  Samaras, Dimitrios A ^a   Reif, Albert ^b   Theodoropoulos, Konstantinos ^c  

^a not available   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abtew model; Calibration; Empirical equations; Greece; Potential evapotranspiration; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND;

EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; PENMAN-MONTEITH METHOD; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CALIBRATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

GREECE;

EID: 84890884850     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0480-3     Document Type: Article

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