Regionalization of Potential Evapotranspiration Prediction

Estimation of Potential evapotranspiration is important in Water Resources development program. However, there is no standardized procedure in ungauged stations of the country. To address this problem, Regionalization through Multivariate regression models of average monthly potential evapotranspiration is developed for the Blue Nile (Abbay) River basin. Average monthly values of daily PET, is estimated from the Penman-Monteith equation using 13 years (1992-2004) monthly climate data collected from 25 synoptic stations of the National Meteorological services Agency. Regional regression relationships are then developed which relate Fourier series coefficients with the average monthly temperature Fourier coefficients, station latitude, station longitude and station elevation. The regional model developed,have satisfactory r, R2 and adj R2 and it is shown to be an improvement over the Priestly-Taylor method (Priestley, and Taylor, 1972), the Turc method (Turc, 1961), the Hargraves and Samani method (Hargraves and Samani, 1985), and the regional model also shown to be an improvement over other previously developed model (equations) for the basin in particular (Sileshi, 2002).

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Endale Tsegaye Woldeyohannes, MSC: Studied Irrigation Engineering at Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. Have demonstrated experience on Irrigation Drainage Project studies, Contract document preparation and supervising construction of large dams for these projects.Currently, Project coordinator of Lake Tana Sub-basins' five Dams Construction Project.