Use of pan evaporation to estimate terrestrial evaporation trends: The case of the Tibetan Plateau

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3054-3058

  Brutsaert, Wilfried ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

land surface evaporation; pan evaporation; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DRYING CONDITION; LAND SURFACE; OPEN WATER; PAN EVAPORATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EVAPORATION;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAND SURFACE; OPEN WATER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84879993555     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20247     Document Type: Article

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