CWE/932/2017 当前世界环境 0973-4929 2320-8031 Enviro Research Publishers CWE--37-00 Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimation Models for Junagadh City of Gujarat 1 Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU), Department of Soil and Water Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh, India. 2016-08-31 10.12944/CWE.11.2.34 Volume 11 Volume 11 619-630 Abstract

< p > < span = " font-siz风格e:14px">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.

Keywords Evapotranspiration Agro-climatic potential Estimation methods Penman-Monteith Method Junagadh