Sensitivity of reference evapotranspiration to changes in meteorological parameters in Spain (1961-2011)

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8458-8480

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Azorin Molina, Cesar ^a   Sanchez Lorenzo, Arturo ^b   Revuelto, Jesús ^a   Morán Tejeda, Enrique ^a   Lõpez Moreno, Juan I ^a   Espejo, Francisco ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

evaporation; global warming; relative humidity; Spain; trends; vapor pressure deficit; wind speed

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPAIN; TRENDS; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT; WIND SPEED;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; METEOROLOGY; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER; VAPOR PRESSURE; WIND VELOCITY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84899550419     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015427     Document Type: Article

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