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However, it has been observed that it underestimates ET under advective conditions due to its disregard of advection as another source of energy available for evaporation. A modified SEBAL model was therefore developed in this study. An advection component, which is absent in the original SEBAL, was introduced such that the energy available for evapotranspiration was a sum of net radiation and advected heat energy. The improved SEBAL model was termed SEBAL-Advection or SEBAL-A. An important aspect of the improved model is the estimation of advected energy using minimal weather data. While other RS models would require hourly weather data to be able to account for advection (e.g., METRIC), SEBAL-A only requires daily averages of limited weather data, making it appropriate even in areas where weather data at short time steps may not be available. In this study, firstly, the original SEBAL model was evaluated under advective and non-advective conditions near Rocky Ford in southeastern Colorado, a semi-arid area where afternoon advection is common occurrence. The SEBAL model was found to incur large errors when there was advection (which was indicated by higher wind speed and warm and dry air). SEBAL-A was then developed and validated in the same area under standard surface conditions, which were described as healthy alfalfa with height of 40\u201360 cm, without water-stress. ET values estimated using the original and modified SEBAL were compared to large weighing lysimeter-measured ET values. When the SEBAL ET was compared to SEBAL-A ET values, the latter showed improved performance, with the ET Mean Bias Error (MBE) reduced from \u221217.1% for original SEBAL to 2.2% for SEBAL-A and the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) reduced from 25.1% to 10.9%, respectively. It was therefore concluded that the developed SEBAL-A model was capable of accounting for advection and therefore suitable for arid and semi-arid regions where advection is common.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs71115046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,11]],"date-time":"2015-11-11T02:38:30Z","timestamp":1447209510000},"page":"15046-15067","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["SEBAL-A: A Remote Sensing ET Algorithm that Accounts for Advection with Limited Data. 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