Estimation of daily reference evapotranspiration from limited climatic variables in coastal regions

Hamidreza Vosoughifar, Helaleh Khoshkam, Sayed M. Bateni, Changhyun Jun, Tongren Xu, Shahab S. Band, Christopher M.U. Neale

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Abstract

Generalized multi-adaptive regression splines (MARS) and genetic expression programming (GEP)-based equations were developed to estimate Reference Evapotranspiration (ETo) in coastal regions. Following existing regression-based ETo retrieval equations, five climatic data configurations were used to train, validate, and test the MARS and GEP models (hereafter called MARS1–MARS5 and GEP1–GEP5). The performances of the MARS and GEP models with each of the five input configurations were assessed. The generalized MARS1–MARS5 and GEP1–GEP5 models could estimate ETo accurately in regions other than their training region. In addition, MARS1 performed better than MARS2–MARS5. Similarly, GEP1 outperformed GEP2–GEP5, implying that input configuration 1 contains the most important information about ETo. The results also show that MARS can estimate ETo more accurately than GEP. The findings indicate that MARS1–MARS5 and GEP1–GEP5 improved ETo values compared with the corresponding traditional equations. Finally, sensitivity analyses were conducted to evaluate the impact of each input variable on ETo.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)91-107
Number of pages17
JournalHydrological Sciences Journal
Volume68
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Keywords

  • coastal regions
  • genetic expression programming (GEP)
  • multi-adaptive regression splines (MARS)
  • reference evapotranspiration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Water Science and Technology

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