Hydrologic cycle explains the evaporation paradox

W. Brutsaert and M. B. Parlange
Additional contact information
W. Brutsaert: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
M. B. Parlange: Johns Hopkins University

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6706, 30-30

Abstract: Abstract The evaporation of water, measured using evaporation pans, has been decreasing in the past few decades over large areas with different climates. The common interpretation is that the trend is related to increasing cloudiness, and that it provides an indication of decreasing potential evaporation and a decreasing terrestrial evaporation component in the hydrologic cycle. Here we show that, although these studies are valuable, pan evaporation has not been used correctly as an indicator of climate change.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (21)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/23845 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:396:y:1998:i:6706:d:10.1038_23845

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/23845

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().