Research Article

Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of daily average meteorological data for Kuwait from 1993 to 2009.

EvaporationTemperatureRelative humidityWind speed
(mm/day)(°C)(%)(m/s)

Mean11.6626.8238.544.03
Standard deviation7.859.6820.481.86
Sample variance61.6493.65419.373.44
Kurtosis−0.38−1.35−0.88−0.15
Skewness0.68−0.160.420.62
Range39.9038.0492.0011.36
Minimum0.105.145.500.10
Maximum40.0043.1897.5011.46