Affiliation:
1. Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)
2. Lasbela University of Agriculture Water and Marine Sciences (LUAWMS)
3. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Abstract
Abstract
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is vital for water resources development, planning and management, particularly in the present global warming context. A large number of empirical ET models have been developed for estimating ET. The main limitations of this method are that it requires several meteorological variables and an extensive data span to comprehend the ET pattern accurately, which is not available in most developing countries. The efficiency of 30 empirical ET models has been evaluated in this study to rank them for Pakistan to facilitate the selection of suitable models according to the availability of data. Princeton Global Meteorological Forcing daily climate data with a 0.25°×0.25° resolution for 1948–2016 was utilized. The ET estimated using Penman-Monteith (PM) was considered as the reference. Multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) was used for the ranking of the models for Pakistan. The results showed the temperature-based Hamon as the best model for most Pakistan, followed by Hargreaves-Samani and Penman models. Hamon also showed the best performance in terms of different statistical metrics used in the study with a mean bias (PBias) of -50.2%, mean error (ME) of -1.62 mm and correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.65. Ivan showed the best performance among the humidity-based models, Irmak-RS and Ritch among the radiation-based models and Penman among the mass transfer-based models. Northern Pakistan was the most heterogeneous region in the relative performance of different ET models.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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