Potential Evapotranspiration for the Distributed Modeling of Belgian Catchments
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 130, Issue 1
Abstract
To support a sensitivity analysis in the framework of catchment modeling, three potential evapotranspiration scenarios were generated by means of two Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) approaches, namely, the FAO-24 and the FAO-56 approaches. The crop was estimated as a function of the reference evapotranspiration by means of the approach. Scenario A was generated with the standard FAO-24 approach; Scenario B considered also the FAO-24 approach, but with some nonstandard parameters. Scenario C considered the standard FAO-56 approach. The data were compared to point-scale constraints. The annual cumulative value of from Scenario A was on average approximately 200 mm larger than the values from Scenarios B and C. The research revealed similar estimates for Scenarios B and C. The research also assessed the performance of the angstrom approach for estimating incoming solar radiation In this context, a set of angstrom coefficients was derived by means of an optimization process that considered available data.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 130 • Issue 1 • February 2004
Pages: 1 - 8
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Copyright © 2004 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Mar 18, 2002
Accepted: May 14, 2003
Published online: Jan 16, 2004
Published in print: Feb 2004
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