Estimating Potential Evaporation from Vegetated Surfaces for Water Management Impact Assessments Using Climate Model Output
Estimating Potential Evaporation from Vegetated Surfaces for Water Management Impact Assessments Using Climate Model Output
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DOI:
10.1175/2011jhm1379.1
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发表时间:
2011-10
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3.8
通讯作者:
V. Bell;N. Gedney;A. Kay;Roderick N. B. Smith;Richard G. Jones;R. Moore
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作者:
V. Bell;N. Gedney;A. Kay;Roderick N. B. Smith;Richard G. Jones;R. Moore
AbstractRiver basin managers concerned with maintaining water supplies and mitigating flood risk in the face of climate change are taking outputs from climate models and using them in hydrological models for assessment purposes. While precipitation is the main output used, evaporation is attracting increasing attention because of its significance to the water balance of river basins. Climate models provide estimates of actual evaporation that are consistent with their simplified land surface schemes but do not naturally provide the estimates of potential evaporation (PE) commonly required as input to hydrological models. There are clear advantages in using PE estimates controlled by atmospheric forcings when using stand-alone hydrological models with integral soil-moisture accounting schemes. The atmosphere–land decoupling approximation that PE provides can prove to be of further benefit if it is possible to account for the effect of different, or changing, land cover on PE outside of the climate model. T...