Evaporation from Lake Kinneret, Israel, during hot summer days

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 528, Issue , 2015, Pages 264-275

  Shilo, Elad ^a   Ziv, Baruch ^b   Shamir, Eylon ^c   Rimmer, Alon ^d  

^a Israel Ministry of Transport and Road Safety   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atmospheric stability; Lake evaporation; Latent heat flux; Mediterranean Sea Breeze, Lake Kinneret; Synoptic variables

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; DAILY TEMPERATURES; LAKE EVAPORATION; LAKE KINNERET; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC VARIABLES;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA BREEZE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARMENIA [WEST ASIA]; EGYPT; ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 84936817761     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.06.042     Document Type: Article

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