An evaluation of models of bare soil evaporation formulated with different land surface boundary conditions and assumptions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Smits, Kathleen M ^a   Ngo, Viet V ^a   Cihan, Abdullah ^b   Sakaki, Toshihiro ^a   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BARE SOILS; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; DRY SOIL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GASPHASE; KEY PROCESS; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING ACCURACY; MODELING METHODOLOGY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PHASE CHANGE; SOIL EVAPORATIONS; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT HEAT; VAPOR DIFFUSION; VAPOR TRANSPORT; WATER BALANCE; WATER EXCHANGE;

EVAPORATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; VAPORS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BARE SOIL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVAPORATION; GAS PHASE REACTION; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER BUDGET; WATER EXCHANGE;

EID: 84871596662     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012113     Document Type: Article

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