%0 Journal Article
%T Global land surface evaporation trend during the past half century: Corroboration by Clausius-Clapeyron scaling
%A Brutsaert, W.
%J Advances in Water Resources
%D 2017
%V 106
%@ 0309-1708
%F Brutsaert2017
%O Tribute to Professor Garrison Sposito: An Exceptional Hydrologist and Geochemist
%O exported from refbase (http://www.uhydro.de/base/show.php?record=287), last updated on Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200
%X Analyses of satellite data mainly over the world’s ocean surfaces have shown that during 1986–2006 global average values of atmospheric water vapor, precipitation and evaporation have increased at a relative rate of 0.0013a−1; this is roughly in accordance with the Clausius-Clapeyron equation for the average temperature trend during this period, and amounts to 0.065K−1 at the average temperature of T=14∘C. Application of this concept over the world’s land surfaces yields an average global evaporation trend during the past half century of around 0.4 to 0.5 mma−2; this confirms the values obtained in previous studies with totally different methods.
%K Evaporation
%K Climate change
%K Evaporation trend
%U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030917081630375X
%P 3-5