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NENA Regional ET-Network, Activity 1.1: Institutions and Staff Members Involved

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Title NENA Regional ET-Network, Activity 1.1: Institutions and Staff Members Involved
 
Creator Swelam, Atef
 
Contributor Steduto, Pasquale
AlHamdi,, Mohamed
 
Subject et network
 
Description There are several conventional field methods used to determine ETa, including: 1) the Eddy covariance/energy balance method; 2) the Bowen-ratio/energy balance method; 3) Weighing lysimeters; 4) Soil-moisture depletion method; 5) Large Aperture Scintillometer; and 6) the Penman Monteith method. These methods have their own specific advantages and limitations based on the theory behind and on the instrumentation requirements. However, what they have in common is, among others, the restricted sampling area and the complexity and extremely high costs when attempting to scale-up to larger areas. For large scales (e.g., irrigation schemes, watershed, sub-national, national and basin scales) the only feasible and affordable methods for ET determination are through satellite Remote Sensing (RS), due to progress and advances in space science in recent years. There are several well-established RS-based algorithms for the determination of ETa, including SEBAL (Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land), METRIC (Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration), SEBS (Surface Energy Balance System), ETLook, ETMonitor, etc. Unfortunately, also these methods have their own specific advantages and limitations and are all suffering from a generally limited and scattered field validation. Virtually no validations are systematically carried out in the NENA Region. Therefore, the ETa field measurements established through this ET-Network could effectively be used to validate and calibrate the remote sensed based estimations.
In this regional ET-Network (having Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia as initial countries), the overarching objective is to establish and operate a NENA Regional Network of specialized Institutions, within the countries of reference, to conduct field measurements of actual ET, over selected crops, in order to evaluate the accuracy of existing RS based ET estimates. The Network has been named NENA-ETNet. This regional network was established by ICARDA and financially supported by FAO.
 
Date 2020-02-29
2020-11-25T22:25:20Z
2020-11-25T22:25:20Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/dspace/limited
Atef Swelam, Pasquale Steduto, Mohamed AlHamdi. (29/2/2020). NENA Regional ET-Network, Activity 1. 1: Institutions and Staff Members Involved.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/12096
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