Journal of Water Resource and Protection

Vol.5 No.12A(2013), Article ID:41599,5 pages

DOI:10.4236/jwarp.2013.512A001
Calibration of Hargreaves-Samani Equation for Estimating Reference
Evapotranspiration in Sub-Humid Region of Brazil
Jos Romualdo de Sousa Lima1, Antonio Celso Dantas Antonino2, Eduardo Soares
de Souza3, Claude Hammecker4, Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro2, Carlos
Alberto Brayner de Oliveira Lira2
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Academic Unity of Garanhuns, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco,

Garanhuns, Brazil
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Nuclear Energy Department, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Academic Unity of Serra Talhada, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco,

Serra Talhada, Brazil
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Land Development Department, Office of Science for Land Development, IRD,

Montpellier, France
Email: romualdo@uag.ufrpe.br, acda@ufpe.br, suzanam@ufpe.br, cabol@ufpe.br,
eduardosouza@uast.ufrpe.br, claude.hammecker@ird.fr
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Received October 24, 2013; revised November 25, 2013; accepted December 14,
2013
Keywords: Reference Evapotranspiration; Penman-Monteith; HargreavesSamani; Air Temperature

Evaluation Criteria
In this study, the root mean square error (RMSE), correlation coefficient (r) and
index of agreement d [13] were used for the evaluating HS and HSc methods.
The RMSE and index d are defined as:

(4)

(5)
where Pi and Oi are the predicted and observed values, respectively; O is the
average of Oi, and n is the total number of data.

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