Revised Advection-Aridity Evaporation Model
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 18, Issue 6
Abstract
In this paper, a revised advection-aridity evaporation model is presented to estimate actual evaporation over short time periods. The revised model is applied and validated against an existing data set. The time series comparisons in a soybean site and a corn site reveal that this revised model shows good performance in characterizing the diurnal variation in evapotranspiration. The coefficient of determination for these two sites is 0.92 and 0.87, respectively. To demonstrate the improvement of this model, comparisons between the authors’ newly developed model and the other two revised models are carried out. The quantitative measures show that this revised model represents an obvious improvement compared with the other two models. For all of the sites, the mean absolute difference is less than , the root-mean-square difference is less than , and the coefficient of determination is greater than 0.7. Overall, results from this analysis indicate significant improvements for actual evapotranspiration estimation with this newly developed method.
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Acknowledgments
The authors appreciate the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions, which helped to improve the paper. This work is supported jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41171286 and 40871170), the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB428403), the National Science Foundation of the United States (Grant HRD-0734850), the University Research Award of TAMUK, the Knowledge Innovation Program (KZCX2-YW-326-1), and the 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Thanks are given to the cooperators and participants in SMACEX02.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 18 • Issue 6 • June 2013
Pages: 655 - 664
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Received: Sep 13, 2011
Accepted: May 23, 2012
Published online: May 25, 2012
Published in print: Jun 1, 2013
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