Spatiotemporal variations of reference evapotranspiration in recent five decades in the arid land of Northwestern China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 6124-6134

  Zheng, Chaolei ^a,b   Wang, Quan ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arid land; Mann Kendall test; Penman Monteith; Reference evapotranspiration; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WIND;

ARID LANDS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MANN-KENDALL TEST; PENMAN MONTEITH; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84914118064     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10109     Document Type: Article

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