Abstract

Evapotranspiration (ET) constitutes the dominant water loss from many different types of wetlands. The relative importance of ET is apparent in its influence over water depth, temperature and salinity. However, direct measurement of ET, especially for wetland, is difficult, costly, and rarely available. In this study, the Penman-Monteith model was selected to estimate the reference evapotranspiration for short and tall canopies, moreover, Hargreaves equation was also used to simulate the ETref and test the precision of Penman-Monteith method. The results show that the reference evapotranspiration are maximal between June and August and minimal in winter, and ETrs is larger than ETos in the whole simulation periods. H ET0 and ETos have the same variation trend, but the former was smaller than the latter during May to September. Finally, there is a strong correlation between ETos and ETrs, with the correlation coefficient are 0.98 and 0.99 at daily and monthly means scale.

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