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Evaporation Modeling in Lakes in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

The document discusses evaporation modeling in lakes in arid and semi-arid regions. Evaporation is the main loss from these systems and accurate estimation is important for water resource planning and conservation projects. The paper considers different methods for estimating evaporation from small lakes in these regions based on available data and parameters that affect evaporation such as wind speed, heat storage, and surface roughness.

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Evaporation Modeling in Lakes in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

The document discusses evaporation modeling in lakes in arid and semi-arid regions. Evaporation is the main loss from these systems and accurate estimation is important for water resource planning and conservation projects. The paper considers different methods for estimating evaporation from small lakes in these regions based on available data and parameters that affect evaporation such as wind speed, heat storage, and surface roughness.

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Geophysical Research Abstracts

Vol. 14, EGU2012-933, 2012


EGU General Assembly 2012
© Author(s) 2011

Evaporation Modeling in Lakes in Arid and Semi-arid Regions


A. Abbasi and N. Giesen
Technische Universiteit Delft, Water Resources Management, Delft, Netherlands ([email protected])

Evaporation is the main loss from the system but, in contrast to losses to the groundwater, the evaporative loss
does not have any direct benefits in the immediate environment of the reservoir. Evaporative losses make small
reservoirs less efficient than large reservoirs. Significance of its accurate estimation increases when the problems
are associated with the water resources accounting of arid and semi-arid regions. Direct measurement of evapora-
tion from water surface is very difficult. The process of evaporation is a complex phenomenon, which is a function
of solar radiation, temperature, wind speed, vapour pressure deficit, atmospheric pressure and the surrounding en-
vironment. Accurate estimation of evaporation is important for designing and planning projects in which a water
balance is key factor as well as for conservation of water. In other words, accurate estimation of free water sur-
face evaporation in arid and semi-arid regions, what criterion can be followed for selection of reliable evaporation
method, is an important area of research. The precise estimation of evaporation from a water body requires ex-
tensive databases, which are often missing and/or expensive to generate on routine basis. In this paper, different
methods for evaporation from small lakes in arid and semi-arid regions(According to the available data) is con-
sidered and different parameters affected this phenomenon are discussed(i.e. wind speed above the water surface,
heat storage of lake, roughness length of water surface, etc.).

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