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Published online 1 July 1960
Published in Agron J 52:387-395 (1960)
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An Evaluation of the Thornthwaite and Mean Temperature Methods for Determining Potential Evapotranspiration1

W. L. Pelton, K. M. King and C. B. Tanner2

Synopsis: Measurements of potential evapotranspiration indicate that mean temperature cannot be relied upon for general use in estimating evapotranspiration during short-periods. Mean temperature methods can be used with limited success for long-period (growing season, and annual) estimates of potential evapotranspiration, but energy balance methods are preferable if radiation data are available.

1 Contribution from the Department of Soils, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Published with the permission of the Director of the Wisconsin Agr. Exp. Sta. This work was supported in part by Army Electronic Proving Ground Contract DA-36-039-SC-80063.

2 Research Officer, Soils Section, Research Branch, Canada Dept. Agric., Swift Current, Sask.; Assistant Professor of Soils, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont.; and Professor of Soils, University of Wisconsin.

Received for publication November 17, 1959.


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