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Data description paper
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20 Jan 2022
Data description paper |
| 20 Jan 2022
| 20 Jan 2022
Correcting Thornthwaite potential evapotranspiration using a global grid of local coefficients to support temperature-based estimations of reference evapotranspiration and aridity indices
Soil and Water Resources Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization – DEMETER, Thessaloniki – Thermi, 57001, Greece
Dimos Touloumidis
Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis
Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
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This work provides a global database of correction coefficients for improving the performance of the temperature-based Thornthwaite potential evapotranspiration formula and aridity indices (e.g., UNEP, Thornthwaite) that make use of this formula. The coefficients were produced using as a benchmark the ASCE-standardized reference evapotranspiration formula (formerly FAO-56) that requires temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity data.
This work provides a global database of correction coefficients for improving the performance of...
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