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Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
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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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.
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