Modeling evapotranspiration in a spring wheat from thermal radiometry: crop coefficients and E/T partitioning

Wheat is one of the crops occupying the largest areas in the world (218 million ha in 2013). Understanding the land–atmosphere energy exchanges over these croplands becomes important not only for agronomy but also for climatic and meteorological aspects. This study continues previous work on the estimation of actual evapotranspiration (ET) and the assessment of crop coefficients of sorghum, sunflower, or canola. Two variations of a simple...