Josephine A Archibald
Humboldt State University
Email Address: josephine.archibald@humboldt.eduEvapotranspiration
HumboldtState
Evapotranspiration
This module will review methods of estimating and measuring ET
Module Overview
This module gives a broad overview of ET. The last section on remote sensing is appropriate for graduate students or advanced undergraduates.
Topics Covered
Overview of ET, Water Budget, Measurements of ET, Parameters related to ET, PET Estimation (T and Rn -based), Penman-Monteith Ref ET, Improving Water Management using Remote Sensing
Prerequisites
Students are expected be comfortable with Excel, and to have some familiarity with computer programming, but knowledge of a specific programming language is not required. Students will be asked to interpret and modify code in order to create graphs for analysis and interpretation.
Course Authors
Hugo A. Gutierrez
University of Texas at El Paso
Email Address: hagutierrez@utep.edu
Shangping Xu
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Email Address: xus@uwm.eduTools Needed
MS Word and Excel, Python, GIS software
Course Sharing and Adaptation
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Recommended Citation
Archibald, J., Gutierrez, H., Xu, S. (2020) Evapotranspiration. HydroLearn. https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:HumboldtState+ENGR440+2020_Fall/about.
Expected Effort
The module developers estimate that this module will take about 16 hours to complete.