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Evaluation of radiation methods to study potential evapotranspiration of 31 provinces

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The present study aims to calibrate radiation-based methods to determine the best method under different weather conditions. For this purpose, weather data was collected from different synoptic stations in all of provinces of Iran. The potential evapotranspiration was estimated using common radiation-based methods and a sensitive analysis was done for investigating variations of the methods. The results show that the Stephens method estimates the potential evapotranspiration better than other methods in the most provinces of Iran (10 provinces). However, the values of R 2 were less than 0.98 for 15 provinces of Iran. The calibrated methods estimated the potential evapotranspiration in the south east of Iran better than other provinces. Precision of the methods calibrated has been increased in all provinces. The R 2 values are less than 0.98 for only six provinces (WA, EA, GO, NK, AL, and QO). In the methods calibrated, the Abtew (for YA) estimated the potential evapotranspiration better than the other methods.

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Valipour, M. Evaluation of radiation methods to study potential evapotranspiration of 31 provinces. Meteorol Atmos Phys 127, 289–303 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-014-0351-3

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