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Brutsaert & Sugita 1992
Brutsaert, W. and Sugita, M. (1992). Application of self-preservation in the diurnal evolution of the surface energy budget to determine daily evaporation. Journal of Geophysical Research 97: doi: 10.1029/92JD00255. issn: 0148-0227.

Evaporation from natural land surfaces often exhibits a strong variation during the course of a day, mostly in response to the daily variation of radiative energy input at the surface. This makes it difficult to derive the total daily evaporation, when only one or a few instantaneous estimates of evaporation are available. It is often possible to resolve this difficulty by assuming self-preservation in the diurnal evolution of the surface energy budget. Thus if the relative partition of total incoming energy flux among the different components remains the same, the ratio of latent heat flux (LE) and any other flux component can be taken as constant through the day. This concept of constant flux ratios is tested by means of data obtained during the First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE); the instantaneous evaporation values were calculated by means of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) bulk similarity approach with radiosonde profiles and radiative surface temperatures. Good results were obtained for evaporative flux ratios with available energy flux (LE/(Rn-G)), with net radiation (LE/Rn), and with incoming shortwave radiation (LE/S ↓). ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992

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