Reference evapotranspiration variability and trends in Spain, 1961-2011

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-40

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Azorin Molina, Cesar ^a   Sanchez Lorenzo, Arturo ^a,b   Revuelto, Jesús ^a   López Moreno, Juan I ^a   González Hidalgo, José C ^c   Moran Tejeda, Enrique ^a   Espejo, Francisco ^d  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia AEMET   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Global warming; Mediterranean region; Penman Monteith; Reference evapotranspiration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84904725213     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

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