Surface Energy Balance and Crop Coefficient Estimation with R

This R package computes and integrates surface energy balance into the FAO56 crop water balance model.

Specifically, the package can perform the following functions:

• Single crop coefficient modelling
• Dual crop coefficient modelling
• The integration of thermal-based Evaporative Fractions in a water balance model
• The computation of Two-Source Surface Energy Balance (TSEB) models such as TSEB-PT, TSEB-PM and TSEB-Parallel
• The computation of One-Source Surface Energy Balance (OSEB) models such as SEBAL, METRIC, SEBI, SSEB and SEBS

Installation

Install the released version from CRAN (recommended — dependencies are handled automatically):

install.packages("sebkc")

Or the development version from GitHub:

if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("gowusu/sebkc")

Citation

If you use sebkc in your work, please cite it. You can always get the current citation in R with:

citation("sebkc")

Owusu, G. (2026). sebkc: Surface Energy Balance and Crop Coefficient Evapotranspiration Estimation. R package version 1.0-6. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sebkc

BibTeX:

@Manual{sebkc,
  title  = {sebkc: Surface Energy Balance and Crop Coefficient Evapotranspiration Estimation},
  author = {George Owusu},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.0-6},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.sebkc},
  url    = {https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sebkc},
}

Links

• CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sebkc
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sebkc

Author: George Owusu owusugeorge@ug.edu.gh. This is part of the author's PhD program.