EVAPORATION, AND MOISTURE AND HEAT FIELDS IN THE SOIL
EVAPORATION, AND MOISTURE AND HEAT FIELDS IN THE SOIL
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10.1175/1520-0469(1957)014
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1957-01-01
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PHILIP, JR
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PHILIP, JR
Recent developments in the study of moisture and heat fields in the soil are applied to the problem of evaporation from bare soil surfaces. Most of the analysis is confined to steady conditions, but it definitely suggests that there are 3 phases to the desiccation of a given soil profile: (1) So long as the soil is sufficiently moist, the evaporation rate, E, is indistinguishable from a saturated surface, Eg. (2) At intermediate moisture contents, E is independent of E5 and depends only on the soil-moisture distribution. (3) When the surface layers of the soil are sufficiently dry, E is sensitive to the heat flux in the soil, and a negative correlation between E and E5 may follow. The 1st and 2d of these correspond to the well-known constant and falling rate phases of the "isothermal" drying of initially saturated soils and other porous media, which thus receive quantitative physical explanation. There is experimental evidence of the existence of the 3d phase also. Other results of the article include: (1) Development of a (steady state) model of the energy balance at imperfectly evaporating surfaces (E