Evaluation of the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance Model for Pastureland Evapotranspiration Mapping and Drought Monitoring in North Central Kentucky

Table 2

Performance indices used to compare estimated monthly ET (SSEBop) and Penman–Monteith (P–M) against flux measured ET.

	BIAS	RMSE	MAPE	MRE	R^2
SSEBop	5.47	21.49	30.94	10.48	0.87
P–M	49.55	56.76	95.51	94.90	0.60