Using uncertainty of Penman and Penman-Monteith methods in combined satellite and ground-based evapotranspiration estimates

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-112

  Westerhoff, R S ^a,b,c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Ground based estimates; MOD16; Monte Carlo fitting; PET; Reference ET; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; RANDOM VARIABLES; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GROUND BASED; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; MOD16; PENMAN-MONTEITH METHOD; REFERENCE ET; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84939604127     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.021     Document Type: Article

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