evapotranspiration eric peterson geo 361 - hydrology
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Evapotranspiration
Eric Peterson
GEO 361 - Hydrology
Evaporation – process by which water is transferred from the land and water masses of the earth to the atmosphere.
Transpiration – transfer of water from plants to the atmosphere, soil moisture taken up by vegetation is eventually evaporated as it exits plant pores.
Evapotranspiration – combination of evaporation and transpiration.
Within the United States ~ 4,200 bgd of precipitation falls
2/3 is returned to the atmosphere Evaporation rates vary spatially and
temporally.
Where would you expect the highest evaporation rates?
Why? Where would you expect the lowest
evaporation rates?
Globally, where would you expect the highest evaporation rates?
Globally, where would you expect the lowest evaporation rates?
Why?
June 1998 Mean Surface Temperature
Where Will Precipitation and Evaporation Occur?
Temporal variation Will evaporation occur at the same rate all
year long? Why
Evaporation Occurs when water changes state from a liquid to
a gas Function of:
Solar radiation Differences in vapor pressure between the surface
and the overlying air Temperature Wind Atmospheric pressure
Net Evaporation A continuous exchange of water occurs
between the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface
When more water evaporates than returns there is net evaporation
Net evaporation ceases when the air is saturated (water vapor pressure = saturated vapor pressure)
Hornsberger et al., 1998
Factors needed for Evaporation For water to change states – energy is
needed to supply latent heat of vaporization (the quantity of energy that is added when a unit mass of substance vaporizes
Concentration gradient in the water vapor, this is enhanced by air circulation.
Evaporation and Fick’s First Law Evaporation is a diffusive process that follows Fick’s first
law that states molecules of a substance will move from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration:
Where Jj is the flux of species j crossing a certain area per unit time
Dj is the diffusion coefficient of species j
is the concentration gradient of species j, and is the driving force for the movement
x
cDJ j
jj
x
c j
Fick’s law applied to Evaporation Applying Fick’s law
Where E is the evaporation rate (L/t) es and ea are the vapor pressures of the evaporating
surface and the overlying air (M/(Lt2)) va is the wind speed (L/t)
KE is a coefficient that represents the efficiency of vertical transport of water vapor by turbulent eddies of wind (Lt2/M)
)( asaE eevKE
KE is a function of the wind and is found using:
Where a is the density of air (M/L3) P is the atmospheric pressure [M/(L*T2)] zm is the height at which the wind speed and air
vapor pressure are measured (L) zd & z0 are the zero-plane displacement and the
roughness height of the surface (L)
2
0
ln25.6
1622.0
z
zzPK
dmw
aE
zd (zero-plane displacement) = 0.7 zveg represents a height where wind velocity is minimal.
z0 (roughness height) = 0.1 zveg represents a height where wind is being influenced by surface features