Procedures to Develop a Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration Zone Map
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The goal of this study was to define procedures needed to make a Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration () zone map using daily climate data from full stations, having solar radiation, air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, and from partial stations, having only temperature data. For partial stations, the was estimated either by substitution of data from nearby full stations or by using a calibration factor and the Hargreaves–Samani equation estimate of reference evapotranspiration. The substitution method gave statistically better estimates of than the calibration method. In addition, to improve the number and distribution of estimates, three interpolation techniques were evaluated. Ordinary kriging provided better spatialization of data than the inverse distance weighting and radial basis function.
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank the ARPAS department and the hydrographical district for weather data used in this study. This research was funded by the Ph.D. program in Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology of Agricultural and Forest Systems (Ph.D. school in Science and Biotechnology of Agricultural Systems, Forestry and Food production) of the University of Sassari in collaboration with the University of California–Davis; the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 244255 (WASSERMed project), and the Italian MIUR and MATTM (Gemina project) under grant agreement 232/2011.
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