Reference Evapotranspiration (Global - Mean Monthly - ~19km)

Grid with estimated reference evapotranspiration per month with a spatial resolution of 10 arc minutes. The dataset contains mean monthly values for global land areas, excluding Antarctica, for the period 1961-1990. The dataset has been prepared according to the FAO Penman - Monteith method with limited climatic data as described in FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56. The dataset consists of 12 ASCII-grids with mean monthly data in mm/day * 10, and one ASCII-grid with yearly data in mm/year.

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Date (Creation)
2004-01-01
Edition

first
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

This dataset is especially useful to perform GIS-based water balance model calculations (e.g. GlobWat).
Status
Completed
Originator
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - Jippe Hoogeveen
Theme

  • reference evapotranspiration

  • evaporation

  • transpiration

  • climate

  • meteorology

  • AQUAMAPS_climate

  • AQUAMAPS_globwat

  • Tag_AQUASTAT
Place

  • World
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
10  arc/min
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1961-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326 - WGS84
Number of dimensions
4
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
1080
Resolution
10  arc/min
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
2160
Resolution
10  arc/min
Dimension name
Time
Dimension size
12
Resolution
1  month
Dimension name
Vertical
Dimension size
10
Resolution
1  mm/day
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
  • ASHII-GRID ( )

OnLine resource
Online link to 'The CRU CL 2.0 Global Climate Dataset' - website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Download - Global map of monthly and yearly reference evapotranspiration - 10 arc minutes (13 TXT) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
Download - Global map of monthly reference evapotranspiration -Input for GlobWat - 5 arc minutes (12 ASCII-grid) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
AQUAMAPS:eto ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )

Monthly reference evapotranspiration

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

The input data used to calculate this dataset are part of the "CRU CL 2.0 Global Climate Dataset" prepared by the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, UK, and distributed through the website: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/grid/CRU_CL_2_0.html ).

File identifier
db326f70-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-12-23T09:03:41
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_climate AQUAMAPS_globwat Tag_AQUASTAT climate evaporation meteorology reference evapotranspiration transpiration

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