Desempenho de métodos de estimativa da evapotranspiração de referência para a região da Serra da Mantiqueira, MG

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) estimating methods, in daily and monthly intervals, considering the rainy-summer (October to March) and dry-winter (April to September) seasons, in 2007 and 2008, in Mantiqueira range region, MG. To evaluate the performance methods were considered: the correlation (r) and determination (r2) coefficients, Willmott agreement (d), e Camargo & Sentelhas performance (c) and standard error estimate (SEE), taking Penman-Monteith-FAO as reference. It was verified that the methods based on solar radiation were more accurate than those based only on air temperature. Jensen-Haise, Radiation FAO, Penman and Blaney-Criddle FAO have produced better estimates in both seasons, obtaining good reliability on ETo estimate for the region, presenting "high" and "very good" performance. Jensen-Haise, Radiation FAO and Blaney-Criddle FAO are the most indicated methods in daily scale to the Mantiqueira range region due to present simpler mathematical structure and good performance, while the Jensen-Haise method presented the smallest standard error for the monthly scale.