Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-4865-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-4865-2013
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06 Dec 2013
Comment/reply |  | 06 Dec 2013

Comment on the application of the Szilagyi–Jozsa advection–aridity model for estimating actual terrestrial evapotranspiration in "Estimating actual, potential, reference crop and pan evaporation using standard meteorological data: a pragmatic synthesis" by McMahon et al. (2013)

T. A. McMahon, M. C. Peel, and J. Szilagyi

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