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Evaporative cooling of a body of water
Author(s) -
Dake Jonas M. K.
Publication year - 1972
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 - 10.1029/wr008i004p01087
Subject(s) - evaporation , evaporative cooler , environmental science , simple (philosophy) , potential evaporation , stability (learning theory) , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , thermodynamics , hydrology (agriculture) , mechanics , geology , geotechnical engineering , physics , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning
Known physical laws and empirical evaporation formulas are correlated to provide a simple means for estimating evaporative heat losses from water bodies. The result also provides an adjustment for atmospheric stability to established evaporation formulas.