Historical gridded reconstruction of potential evapotranspiration for the UK

Tanguy, Maliko; Prudhomme, Christel; Smith, Katie; Hannaford, Jamie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-951-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-951-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-951-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Review article

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01 Jun 2018

Review article |

| 01 Jun 2018

Historical gridded reconstruction of potential evapotranspiration for the UK

Maliko Tanguy, Christel Prudhomme, Katie Smith, and Jamie Hannaford

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RC1: 'Peer Review comments on Tanguy et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Response to referee#1', Maliko Tanguy, 23 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Historical gridded reconstruction of potential evapotranspiration for the UK by Tanguy et al.', Mark McCarthy, 04 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Response to referee#2 (Mark McCarthy)', Maliko Tanguy, 20 Apr 2018

Short summary

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is necessary input data for most hydrological models, used to simulate river flows. To reconstruct PET prior to the 1960s, simplified methods are needed because of lack of climate data required for complex methods. We found that the McGuinness–Bordne PET equation, which only needs temperature as input data, works best for the UK provided it is calibrated for local conditions. This method was used to produce a 5 km gridded PET dataset for the UK for 1891–2015.