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Daily reference and potential evapotranspiration, and supporting meteorological data from the North American Regional Reanalysis, solar insolation data from the GOES satellite, and blue-sky albedo data from the MODIS satellite, Florida, 2019 (ver. 1.1, April 2021)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019-01-01
End Date
2019-12-31
Revision
2021-04-22

Citation

Bellino, J.C., Shoemaker, W.B., and Mecikalski, J.R., 2020, Daily reference and potential evapotranspiration, and supporting meteorological data from the North American Regional Reanalysis, solar insolation data from the GOES satellite, and blue-sky albedo data from the MODIS satellite, Florida, 2019 (ver. 1.1, April 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y8VTQC.

Summary

Potential evapotranspiration (PET), and reference evapotranspiration (ETo) are estimated at an approximately 2-kilometer (approximately 0.019 degrees longitude and 0.018 degrees latitude) spatial grid and daily time-scale from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 for the entire State of Florida. PET and ETo were computed on the basis of solar radiation, meteorological data (minimum/maximum temperature, minimum/maximum relative humidity, and mean wind speed at 2-meter height), and shortwave blue-sky albedo data for 2019. Solar radiation was computed from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sensor data, blue-sky albedo was computed from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) MCD43A1 BRDF/Albedo data [...]

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browse_narr.png thumbnail 151.33 KB image/png
fl.et.narr.2019.v.1.1.nc 488.73 MB application/x-netcdf
fl.et.narr.2019.v.1.1.xml
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validation.zip 1.72 MB application/zip
validation_station_list.csv 2.85 KB text/csv
validation_v.1.1_ETo.pdf 6.12 MB application/pdf
validation_v.1.1_PET.pdf 1.2 MB application/pdf
version_history.txt 780 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

In Florida, potential and reference evapotranspiration are required for many community planning activities such as water-use permitting and regulation, estimating agricultural irrigation demands, scientific evaluations of ecosystem resiliency, and modeling surface water and groundwater.

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