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Scientific foundation
Remote sensing and surface-energy-balance research provided the physical basis of the model.
Origins & Publications
Scientific development over time.
BAITSSS developed through research on evapotranspiration, surface energy balance, soil-water accounting, irrigation, remote sensing, and later computational and desktop software development.
01 · Origins
Between satellite observations
Field processes continue between satellite observations. BAITSSS was developed to carry the water and energy balance through those intervals using remote sensing, weather, vegetation information, soil properties, and management assumptions.
02 · Development timeline
Scientific and software development
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BAITSSS formulation
The model developed into a coupled two-source energy-balance and soil-water system operating between observation times.
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Research applications
Published studies evaluated BAITSSS in semiarid agriculture, restricted water allocation, advective conditions, lettuce, citrus, and soil-information studies.
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Computational development
The scientific code was reworked for faster execution, restart capability, run records, and reproducible execution.
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Desktop software
Current development implements the research model within a desktop application with project, data, execution, results, and export workflows.
03 · Research history
Research history and current development
BAITSSS research has involved work associated with the University of Idaho, Kansas State University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the Desert Research Institute, collaborators, field sites, and research programs represented in the publication record.
04 · Selected peer-reviewed record
Publications
2016
Dhungel, R., Allen, R.G., Trezza, R., & Robison, C.W. (2016). Evapotranspiration between satellite overpasses: methodology and case study in agricultural dominant semi-arid areas. Meteorological Applications, 23(4), 714–730. DOI ↗
2019
Dhungel, R., Aiken, R., Colaizzi, P.D., Lin, X., O'Brien, D., Baumhardt, R.L., Brauer, D.K., Marek, G.W., & Evett, S.R. (2019). Evaluation of uncalibrated energy balance model (BAITSSS) for estimating evapotranspiration in a semiarid, advective climate. Hydrological Processes, 33(15), 2110–2130. DOI ↗
2019
Dhungel, R., Aiken, R., Colaizzi, P.D., Lin, X., Baumhardt, R.L., Evett, S.R., Brauer, D.K., Marek, G.W., & O'Brien, D. (2019). Increased bias in evapotranspiration modeling due to weather and vegetation indices data sources. Agronomy Journal, 111(3), 1407–1424. DOI ↗
2020
Dhungel, R., Aiken, R., Lin, X., Kenyon, S., Colaizzi, P.D., Luhman, R., Baumhardt, R.L., O'Brien, D., Kutikoff, S., & Brauer, D.K. (2020). Restricted water allocations: Landscape-scale energy balance simulations and adjustments in agricultural water applications. Agricultural Water Management, 227, 105854. DOI ↗
2021
Dhungel, R., Aiken, R., Evett, S.R., Colaizzi, P.D., Marek, G., Moorhead, J.E., Baumhardt, R.L., Brauer, D.K., Kutikoff, S., & Lin, X. (2021). Energy imbalance and evapotranspiration hysteresis under an advective environment: Evidence from lysimeter, eddy covariance, and energy balance modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091203. DOI ↗
2023
Dhungel, R., Anderson, R.G., French, A.N., Saber, M., Sanchez, C.A., & Scudiero, E. (2023). Assessing evapotranspiration in a lettuce crop with a two-source energy balance model. Irrigation Science, 41(2), 183–196. DOI ↗
2024
Dhungel, R., Anderson, R.G., French, A.N., Skaggs, T.H., Ajami, H., & Wang, D. (2024). Intercomparison of citrus evapotranspiration among eddy covariance, OpenET ensemble models, and the water and energy balance model (BAITSSS). Agricultural Water Management, 304, 109066. DOI ↗
2025
Dhungel, R., Anderson, R.G., French, A.N., Skaggs, T.H., Wang, G., Li, N., & Scudiero, E. (2025). Impact of soil heterogeneity on evapotranspiration and irrigation modeling using POLARIS and SSURGO-based soil hydraulic properties. Agricultural Water Management, 319, 109806. DOI ↗
Selected peer-reviewed BAITSSS publications verified from the reviewed publication sources. Related conference papers, supporting methods papers, and collaborator publications are not included here.