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Agricultural Water Management 188 (2017) 101–114 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Agricultural Water Management j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: w w w. elsev /locate/agwa t Research Paper Evaluation of FAO56-PM, empirical, semi-empirical and gene expression programming approaches for estimating daily reference evapotranspiration in hyper-arid regions of Iran Jalal Shiri Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Accurate estimation of the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is needed in water resources planning and Received 7 June 2016 management, irrigation scheduling and efficient agricultural water management. The FAO56-PM com- Received in revised form 31 March 2017 bination model is usually applied as a benchmark model for calculating ETo and calibrating other ETo Accepted 13 April 2017 models. However, the need for large amount of meteorological variables is a major drawback of this Available online 22 April 2017 model, especially in case of data scarcity. Therefore, application of ETo models relying on fewer meteoro- logical parameters, as well as calculating ETo using estimated meteorological variables is recommended Keywords: in literature. The present paper aims at assessing the performances of different ETo models using the Cluster analysis Data scarcity