Enhancement of evaporation from a large northern lake by the entrainment of warm, dry air

The turbulent exchange of water vapor and heat were measured above Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, using the eddy covariance method for most of the ice-free period in 1997, 1998, and 1999. In all years, evaporation tended to occur in episodic pulses, lasting 52–78 h, between which q...

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Main Authors: Peter D. Blanken, Wayne R. Rouse, William M. Schertzer
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Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.563.5550
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Summary:The turbulent exchange of water vapor and heat were measured above Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, using the eddy covariance method for most of the ice-free period in 1997, 1998, and 1999. In all years, evaporation tended to occur in episodic pulses, lasting 52–78 h, between which quiescent periods dominated. The contributions of these evaporation pulses to the measured total evaporation were 45%, 65%, and 47 % for