Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression

Table 2

Correlation coefficients of daily and monthly average meteorological data for Kuwait from 1993 to 2009.

			Evaporation	Temperature	Humidity	Wind speed
Untransformed 𝑇 and 𝐻	Monthly	Evaporation	1.00
		Temperature	0.94	1.00
		Humidity	−0.92	−0.92	1.00
		Wind speed	0.74	0.59	−0.67	1.00
	Daily	Evaporation	1.00
		Temperature	0.86	1.00
		Humidity	−0.81	−0.78	1.00
		Wind speed	0.53	0.32	−0.34	1.00
Transformed 𝑇 and 𝐻	Monthly	Evaporation	1.00
		Temperature	0.96	1.00
		Humidity	0.95	0.93	1.00
		Wind speed	0.74	0.60	0.72	1.00
	Daily	Evaporation	1.00
		Temperature	0.87	1.00
		Humidity	0.84	0.82	1.00
		Wind speed	0.53	0.32	0.39	1.00