Pan evaporation is an important observation that indicates the atmospheric evaporative demand. It has been stated that the global mean surface air temperature has increased 0.12°C per decade from 1951 to 2012 (IPCC, 2014). However, a significant downward trend in pan evaporation has been widely reported over the past several decades, such as in
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