Monitoring and Forecasting Reference Evapotranspiration for Food Security Assessments

Shraddhanand Shukla1, Mike Hobbins2, Daniel McEvoy3, Gregory J Husak4, Candida Dewes2, Amy McNally5, Justin L Huntington6, Chris C Funk7 and James P Verdin8, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States