@article{fdi:010073628,
  title = {{R}etrieving air humidity, global solar radiation, and reference evapotranspiration from daily temperatures : development and validation of new methods for {M}exico. {P}art {I} : humidity},
  author = {{L}obit, {P}. and {P}erez, {L}. {L}. and {L}homme, {J}ean-{P}aul and {T}agle, {A}. {G}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his study evaluates the dew point method ({A}llen et al. 1998) to estimate atmospheric vapor pressure from minimum temperature, and proposes an improved model to estimate it from maximum and minimum temperature. {B}oth methods were evaluated on 786 weather stations in {M}exico. {T}he dew point method induced positive bias in dry areas but also negative bias in coastal areas, and its average root mean square error for all evaluated stations was 0.38 k{P}a. {T}he improved model assumed a bi-linear relation between estimated vapor pressure deficit (difference between saturated vapor pressure at minimum and average temperature) and measured vapor pressure deficit. {T}he parameters of these relations were estimated from historical annual median values of relative humidity. {T}his model removed bias and allowed for a root mean square error of 0.31 k{P}a. {W}hen no historical measurements of relative humidity were available, empirical relations were proposed to estimate it from latitude and altitude, with only a slight degradation on the model accuracy ({RMSE} = 0.33 k{P}a, bias = -0.07 k{P}a). {T}he applicability of the method to other environments is discussed.},
  keywords = {{MEXIQUE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{T}heoretical and {A}pplied {C}limatology},
  volume = {133},
  numero = {3-4},
  pages = {751--762},
  ISSN = {0177-798{X}},
  year = {2018},
  DOI = {10.1007/s00704-017-2211-9},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073628},
}