Evaporation from three water bodies of different sizes and climates: Measurements and scaling analysis

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 160-172

  Assouline, S ^a   Tyler, S W ^b   Tanny, J ^a   Cohen, S ^a   Bou Zeid, E ^c   Parlange, M B ^c   Katul, G G ^d  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Flux variance method; Lake evaporation; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Scalar similarity

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DATA REDUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR;

FLUX-VARIANCE METHOD; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ADVECTION; DATA REDUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR;

ADVECTION; EVAPORATION; LAKE WATER; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE GENEVA;

EID: 36048981191     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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