Accuracy Assessment of NOAA Gridded Daily Reference Evapotranspiration for the Texas High Plains

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1262-1271

  Moorhead, Jerry ^a   Gowda, Prasanna ^a   Hobbins, Mike ^b   Senay, Gabriel ^c   Paul, George ^d   Marek, Thomas ^d   Porter, Dana ^d  

^a ARS CPRL ^*  (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Ogallala Aquifer region; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; SUN; WATER RESOURCES; WIND;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; OGALLALA AQUIFERS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALFALFA; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; MAP; NOAA SATELLITE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WIND VELOCITY;

GREAT PLAINS; OGALLALA AQUIFER; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 84983197476     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12303     Document Type: Article

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