Daily reference and potential evapotranspiration, and supporting meteorological data from the North American Regional Reanalysis, solar insolation data from the GOES satellite, and blue-sky albedo data from the MODIS satellite, Florida, 2019 (ver. 1.1, April 2021)
Dates
Publication Date
2020-09-25
Start Date
2019-01-01
End Date
2019-12-31
Revision
2021-04-22
Citation
Bellino, J.C., Shoemaker, W.B., and Mecikalski, J.R., 2020, Daily reference and potential evapotranspiration, and supporting meteorological data from the North American Regional Reanalysis, solar insolation data from the GOES satellite, and blue-sky albedo data from the MODIS satellite, Florida, 2019 (ver. 1.1, April 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y8VTQC.
Summary
Potential evapotranspiration (PET), and reference evapotranspiration (ETo) are estimated at an approximately 2-kilometer (approximately 0.019 degrees longitude and 0.018 degrees latitude) spatial grid and daily time-scale from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 for the entire State of Florida. PET and ETo were computed on the basis of solar radiation, meteorological data (minimum/maximum temperature, minimum/maximum relative humidity, and mean wind speed at 2-meter height), and shortwave blue-sky albedo data for 2019. Solar radiation was computed from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sensor data, blue-sky albedo was computed from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) MCD43A1 BRDF/Albedo data [...]
Summary
Potential evapotranspiration (PET), and reference evapotranspiration (ETo) are estimated at an approximately 2-kilometer (approximately 0.019 degrees longitude and 0.018 degrees latitude) spatial grid and daily time-scale from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 for the entire State of Florida. PET and ETo were computed on the basis of solar radiation, meteorological data (minimum/maximum temperature, minimum/maximum relative humidity, and mean wind speed at 2-meter height), and shortwave blue-sky albedo data for 2019. Solar radiation was computed from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sensor data, blue-sky albedo was computed from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) MCD43A1 BRDF/Albedo data product, and meteorological data were obtained from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR). Open source tools for managing the NetCDF files in this data release can be found at https://github.com/jbellino-usgs/Florida-GOES-ET.
In Florida, potential and reference evapotranspiration are required for many community planning activities such as water-use permitting and regulation, estimating agricultural irrigation demands, scientific evaluations of ecosystem resiliency, and modeling surface water and groundwater.