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Use of pan evaporation to estimate terrestrial evaporation trends: The case of the Tibetan Plateau
Author(s) -
Brutsaert Wilfried
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1002/wrcr.20247
Subject(s) - evaporation , pan evaporation , environmental science , plateau (mathematics) , potential evaporation , wind speed , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , geology , geography , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Key Points Often decreasing pan evaporation means increasing terrestrial evaporation. Past global dimming was likely too weak to cause wide decreased evaporation. Often a decrease in wind speed, i.e. stilling, leads to increasing evaporation.