Abstract
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) can reflect the characteristics of drought change in different time scales and is the key parameter for calculating the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The Thornthwaite (TH) and Penman–Monteith (PM) models are generally used to calculate PET, but the precision of PET derived from the TH model is poor, and a large number of meteorological parameters are required to evaluate the PM model. To obtain high-precision PET with fewer meteorological parameters, a high-precision PET (HPET) model is proposed to calculate PET by introducing precipitable water vapor (PWV) from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observation. The PET difference (DPET) between TH- and PM-derived PET was calculated first. Then, the relationship between the DPET and GNSS-derived PWV/temperature was analysed, and a piecewise linear regression model was calculated to fit the DPET. Finally, the HPET model was established by adding the fitted DPET to the initial PET derived from the TH model. The Loess Plateau (LP) was selected as the experiment area, and the statistical results show the satisfactory performance of the proposed HPET model. The averaged root mean square (RMS) of the HPET model over the whole LP area is 8.00 mm, whereas the values for the TH and revised TH (RTH) models are 34.25 and 12.55 mm, respectively, when the PM-derived PET is regarded as the reference. Compared with the TH and RTH models, the average improvement rates of the HPET model over the whole LP area are 77.5 and 40.5%, respectively. In addition, the HPET-derived SPEI is better than that of the TH and RTH models at different month scales, with average improvement rates of 49.8 and 23.1%, respectively, over the whole LP area. Such results show the superiority of the proposed HPET model to the existing PET models.
Highlights
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) reflects the rate of large-area evapotranspiration, which is an important parameter for calculating the standardized precision evapotranspiration index (SPEI) [1,2]
To improve the precision of PET using fewer meteorological parameters, this paper proposes a high-precision PET (HPET) model based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-derived precipitable water vapor (PWV)
The Loess Plateau (LP) area was selected as the experiment area, and the validation results reveal that the PET and SPEI derived from the HPET model are superior to those of the existing TH and revised TH (RTH) models
Summary
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) reflects the rate of large-area evapotranspiration, which is an important parameter for calculating the standardized precision evapotranspiration index (SPEI) [1,2]. The authors of [19] proved the potential of establishing an index using GNSS-derived PWV and meteorological parameters for drought and flood monitoring. Established a revised TH (RTH) model using GNSS-derived PWV to retrieve PET with fewer meteorological parameters, and the improvement of the RTH model was approximately. To improve the precision of PET using fewer meteorological parameters, this paper proposes a high-precision PET (HPET) model based on GNSS-derived PWV. This model overcomes the defects of low precision in the traditional TH model and the large number of input parameters in the PM model. The Loess Plateau (LP) area was selected as the experiment area, and the validation results reveal that the PET and SPEI derived from the HPET model are superior to those of the existing TH and RTH models
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