Complementary relationships for near-instantaneous evaporation |
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| Authors: | Richard Crago and Raphael Crowley |
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| Institution: | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA |
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| Abstract: | The complementary relationship between actual and potential evaporation provides evaporation (i.e. evapotranspiration) estimates from minimal data. Some versions that require a land surface temperature instead of a humidity measurement could potentially be used with routine remotely sensed surface temperature data. A comparison of alternative complementary approaches, including those that require land surface temperatures, was made at small (10–30 min) time scales with point measurements spatially, using data from the FIFE, CASES, SGP, and Sahel field experiments. The advection-aridity version and a related version based on the Penman and the Priestley–Taylor equations performed the best overall. One of the four versions that incorporated land surface temperature performed fairly well. The complementary approach appears to remain viable, especially in remote sensing applications with sparse data. |
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| Keywords: | Evaporation Evapotranspiration Complementary approach Advection-aridity Surface energy balance |
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