Forecasting daily reference evapotranspiration for Australia using numerical weather prediction outputs

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-63

  Perera, Kushan C ^a   Western, Andrew W ^a   Nawarathna, Bandara ^b   George, Biju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FAO56; Forecasting; Numerical weather prediction; Reference evapotranspiration

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEW POINT; DIURNAL VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84899091996     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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