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Abstract
Temperatures of soybean (Glycine max L.), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.), and millet (Panicum miliaceum L.), measured with a thermalscanner flown at altitudes of 610 and 1220 m, were used in a resistance form of the energy-balance equation to estimateevapotranspiration (ET). Atmospheric attenuation produced errors of 1 to 6 °C in the scannermeasurements. Errors from neglecting emissivity corrections were less than 1.0 °C. A correction procedure relating temperature error to atmospheric precipitable water was applied to the scannermeasurements. Estimates of ET using the corrected temperatures differed from lysimetric measurements by -0.40 to 0.1 7 ly/min. It was found that accurately extrapolating scannermeasurements to ground level was essential for estimating ET.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Evapotranspiration laboratory, Agronomy Department, Kansasa State University, Manhattan, Kansasa Agriculture Meteorology section, Dept. of Agriculture Engineering, University of Nebraska, Nebraska |
| Subjects: | Atmosperic Science > Climatology Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT-InfoSAT |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2012 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2012 09:31 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0034-4257(76)90044-4 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4676 |
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