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Monthly Pan Evaporation Data across the Continental United States between 1950-2001

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Hobbins, M.T., Barsugli, J.J., Dewes, C.F., and Rangwala, I., 2017, Monthly Pan Evaporation Data across the Continental United States between 1950-2001: https://doi.org/10.21429/C9MW25.

Summary

Pan evaporation is a measure of atmospheric evaporative demand (E0) for which long term and spatially distributed observations are available from the NOAA Cooperative Observer (COOP) Network. However, this data requires extensive quality control and homogenization due to documented and undocumented station moves and other factors including human errors in recording or digitization. Station-based Pan Evaporation measurements (in mm) from 247 stations across the continental United States were compiled and quality controlled for the analysis shown in Dewes et al., 2017. This dataset reports warm season (May-October; for 21 stations the data is only available for May-September) pan evaporation with at least 20 years of data between 1950 [...]

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Point of Contact :
Joseph J. Barsugli
Originator :
Michael T. Hobbins, Joseph J. Barsugli, Candida F. Dewes, Imtiaz Rangwala
Metadata Contact :
Joseph J. Barsugli
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Pan_Evaporation_Monthly_Data_Dewes_et_al_2017.xlsx 1.17 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

The pan evaporation dataset compiled from 247 stations across the continental United Stated (CONUS) provides an independent measure of the "observed" atmospheric evaporative demand (E0) for a period between 1950 and 2001. It is therefore unique in that capacity because almost all other estimations of E0 are mathematically derived using basic meteorological variables. This dataset, which has gone through several quality control procedures, is expected to be particularly instructive to the research community in validating modeled evaporative demand terms (potential or reference evapotranspiration), which could include examining the model's ability to correctly simulate the nature of temporal and spatial varibility in E0 across CONUS.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.21429/C9MW25

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