Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimation Models for Junagadh City of Gujarat
H.H. Mashru1 and D.K. Dwivedi1 *
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Department of Soil and Water Engineering,
College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology,
Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU),
Junagadh,
India
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.11.2.34
Estimation of Evapotranspiration is important for determining the agro-climatic potential of a particular region, water requirement of field crops, irrigation scheduling and suitability of crops or varieties, which can be grown successfully with the best economic returns and therefore numerous models have been developed for determining evapotranspiration. The performance evaluation of commonly used reference evapotranspiration (ET0) estimation methods like FAO 56 Penman-Monteith, Samani and Hargreaves, Makkink, Blaney Criddle, Jensen-Haise, Priestly-Taylor, FAO 24 radiation and Modified Penman Monteith method based on their accuracy of estimation has been undertaken in this study. The inter-relationship between FAO-56 Penman-Monteith method and other reference evapotranspiration (ET0) estimation method is also determined in this study. The results showed that Blaney Criddle method, Modified Penman method, Jensen-Haise method and Priestly-Taylor method are the alternative methods to Penman-Monteith method for better estimate of ET0 for the Junagadh city of Gujarat, India.
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Mashru H. H, Dwivedi D. K. Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimation Models for Junagadh City of Gujarat. Curr World Environ 2016;11(2) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.11.2.34
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Mashru H. H, Dwivedi D. K. Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimation Models for Junagadh City of Gujarat. Curr World Environ 2016;11(2). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=15061
