Publication Date:
2018-03-06
Description:
Historical gridded reconstruction of potential evapotranspiration for the UK Maliko Tanguy, Christel Prudhomme, Katie Smith, and Jamie Hannaford Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https//doi.org/10.5194/essd-2017-137,2018 Manuscript under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 1 comment) Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is a necessary input data for most hydrological models, used to simulate river flows. To reconstruct PET prior to 1960s, simplified methods are needed because of lack of climate data required for complex methods. We have found that McGuinness-Bordne PET equation, which only needs temperature as input data, works best for the UK provided it is calibrated for local conditions. This method was used to produce a 5 km gridded PET dataset for the UK for 1891–2015.
Electronic ISSN:
1866-3591
Topics:
Geosciences
