ET Workshop: Using the Best Science to Estimate Consumptive Use - CoAgMET

March 12th, 2010

Workshop Sponsors

Historical evolution of ET estimation methods

Marvin Jensen, ARS/CSU retired

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Penman-Monteith ET calculations

Richard Allen, University of Idaho

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Crop coefficients for Colorado: the Rocky Ford lysimter

Allan Andales, CSU

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Software for consumptive use calculations — IDS CU and State CU

Luis Garcia, CSU and Ray Alvarado, CDWR

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CDWR view of ET calculation methods

Dick Wolfe, State Engineer with CDWR

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Colorado weather data for Penman-Monteith ET calculations — CoAgMet and Northern Water weather networks

Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist and Mark Crookston, NCWCD

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Title: Weather data integrity assessment

Thomas Ley, CDWR

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Calibration of historical crop ET estimates

Thomas Ley, CDWR and Ivan A. Walter, Ivan's Engineering

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Evaporation from water surfaces

Marvin Jensen, ARS/CSU, retired

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Remote sensing to improve ET estimates

Luis Garcia, CSU

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Additional Resources

Marvin Jensen

Historical ET Estimating Methods

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Evaporation from Water Surfaces

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Ivan Walter

Coagmet QC and ET calculations

Instructions: PDF

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ETRETO_File Folder

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HGRV_COEF Folder

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Text Data Folder

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The Colorado Agricultural Meteorological Network (CoAgMet) and Crop ET Reports, Irrigation Crop Series, no 4.723, October, 2009

Allan Andales, Troy Bauder and Nolan Doesken

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