Evaluation of FAO-56 methodology for estimating reference evapotranspiration using limited climatic data

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations had improved the version of the Penman–Monteith method (FAO-56 PM) which has recently been proposed as the standard for estimating reference evapotranspiration (ETo). Unfortunately, some weather variables, especially solar radiation, relative humidity and wind speed, are often missing which could impede the estimation of ETo with the FAO-56 PM method. To overcome the problem of the...