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Estimating Evapotranspiration Using The Complementary Relationship And The Budyko Framework, Homin Kim
Estimating Evapotranspiration Using The Complementary Relationship And The Budyko Framework, Homin Kim
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Land surface actual evapotranspiration (ET) is an important process in terrestrial water balance and reliable estimates of ET are necessary to improve water resources management. In this regard, there is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of an accurate ET model. Among them, the complementary relationship between ET and potential ET (ETP) has been the subject of many studies because it uses only meteorological data as inputs. However, there is an increasing concern that some complementary relationship models perform poorly under dry conditions. To overcome this limitation, this dissertation was designed to extend the latest complementary relationship …
Mapping Annual Riparian Water Use Based On The Single-Satellite-Scene Approach, Kul Khand, Saleh Taghvaeian, Leila Hassan-Esfahani
Mapping Annual Riparian Water Use Based On The Single-Satellite-Scene Approach, Kul Khand, Saleh Taghvaeian, Leila Hassan-Esfahani
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications
The accurate estimation of water use by groundwater-dependent riparian vegetation is of great importance to sustainable water resource management in arid/semi-arid regions. Remote sensing methods can be effective in this regard, as they capture the inherent spatial variability in riparian ecosystems. The single-satellite-scene (SSS) method uses a derivation of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from a single space-borne image during the peak growing season and minimal ground-based meteorological data to estimate the annual riparian water use on a distributed basis. This method was applied to a riparian ecosystem dominated by tamarisk along a section of the lower Colorado River …