2015 calendar-year county-level estimates of actual evapotranspiration for the conterminous United States and Hawaii
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) values estimated for specified areas including 1) total county areas; 2) potentially irrigated areas within each county; and 3) mapped extents of irrigated lands within each county provided by some states. These ETa estimates were provided to the USGS National Water Use Science Project by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center (Gabriel Senay and MacKenzie Friedrichs, written communication, 2/20/2017) and are based on 1-square kilometer resolution 2015 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data analyzed through the operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model using methods of Senay and others (2013). Reference: Senay, G.B., Bohms, S., Singh, R.K., Gowda, P.H., Velpuri, N.M., Alemu, H., and Verdin, J.P., 2013, Operational evapotranspiration mapping using remote sensing and weather datasets: A new parameterization for the SSEB approach; Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 49 (2013), pp. 577?591.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Title | 2015 calendar-year county-level estimates of actual evapotranspiration for the conterminous United States and Hawaii |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9O1TMR6 |
| Authors | Jaime A Painter, Rodney R Caldwell, Justin Brandt, Jonathan V Haynes, Amy L Read |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | South Atlantic Water Science Center |
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