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Assessment of spatiotemporal variability and trend analysis of reference crop evapotranspiration for the southern region of Peninsular India

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Accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is an essential requirement for water resource management and scheduling agricultural activities. Several empirical methods have been employed in estimating ET0 across diverse climate regimes over the past decades. In this study, the Python implementation for estimation of daily and monthly ET0 values of representative stations of ten agro-climatic zones of Karnataka from 1979 to 2014 using the standard FAO Penman-Monteith method was carried out. The assessment of temporal and spatial variability of monthly ET0 values across the various agro-climatic zones done by the various statistical measures revealed that the variation in spatial ET0 values was higher than temporal variation, indicating major difference in ET0 values was with respect to the stations rather than years under study. The nonparametric Mann-Kendall test conducted at 1% significance level on the annual ET0 values revealed a statistically significant increasing trend for all the ten stations during the study period. The trend test conducted on the climate variables like mean air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, and solar radiation signifies their influence on the annual ET0 values. The magnitude changes in the trends detected by the Theil Sen’s slope indicated that increasing values of mean temperature, solar radiation, and decreasing values of relative humidity predominantly contributed to the annual upward trend in ET0 values for the 10 stations. A trivial impact of wind speed on annual ET0 values was observed for the stations. Kalburgi and Udupi stations exhibited a positive ET0 trend with the highest and lowest annual values among ten stations.

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    Jayashree Tenkila Ramachandra, Subba Reddy Nandanavana Veerappa & Dinesh Acharya Udupi

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Conceptualization: Jayashree T R

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Ramachandra, J.T., Veerappa, S.R.N. & Udupi, D.A. Assessment of spatiotemporal variability and trend analysis of reference crop evapotranspiration for the southern region of Peninsular India. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 41953–41970 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15958-0

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