Evaporation from Lakes

Finch, J.W.; Hall, R. L.

doi:10.1002/0470848944.hsa047

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“…The following is an abbreviated discussion of the methods, which are fully provided in Moreo and Swancar (2013) and continued for this study. Methods to estimate lake evaporation generally fall into three categories: (1) aerodynamic methods, (2) energy balance methods, and (3) methods that combine these two approaches (Allen and others, 1998;Finch and Hall, 2005;Rosenberry and others, 2007). Eddy covariance is a micrometeorological method that also falls into the first category; when EC is corrected for energy balance closure it falls within the third category.…”

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Evaporation from Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, Nevada and Arizona, 2010–2019

Earp¹,

Moreo²

2021

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Evaporation from Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, Nevada and Arizona, 2010–2019

Earp¹,

Moreo²

2021

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“…In fact, while evaporation causes a strong variation of isotopic composition and an increase of mobile species concentration, water extraction does not cause any significant chemical or isotopic change. The knowledge and the quantification of these processes is very useful for the management of the lake during drought periods, but the estimation of evaporation rates is not a trivial task [63], being affected by several factors (sun radiant energy, albedo, heat-storage capacity of the lake). The results of our study show that at lake Trasimeno, the multiple regressions relating δ 18 O and δD to evaporation and precipitation (Equations (11) and (12)) can be used to compute evaporation rates on a monthly basis, starting from water isotopic composition and precipitation data.…”

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An Endorheic Lake in a Changing Climate: Geochemical Investigations at Lake Trasimeno (Italy)

Frondini

Dragoni

Morgantini³

et al. 2019

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Lake Trasimeno is a shallow, endorheic lake located in central Italy. It is the fourth Italian largest lake and is one of the largest endorheic basins in western Europe. Because of its shallow depth and the absence of natural outflows, the lake, in historical times, alternated from periods of floods to strong decreases of the water level during periods of prolonged drought. Lake water is characterised by a NaCl composition and relatively high salinity. The geochemical and isotopic monitoring of lake water from 2006 to 2018 shows the presence of well-defined seasonal trends, strictly correlated to precipitation regime and evaporation. These trends are clearly highlighted by the isotopic composition of lake water (δ18O and δD) and by the variations of dissolved mobile species. In the long term, a progressive warming of lake water and a strong increase of total dissolved inorganic solids have been observed, indicating Lake Trasimeno as a paradigmatic example of how climate change can cause large variations of water quality and quantity. Furthermore, the rate of variation of lake water temperature is very close to the rate of variation of land-surface air temperature, LSAT, suggesting that shallow endorheic lakes can be used as a proxy for global warming measurements.

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“…Although physiographic differences can be expected to affect the water budgets of the two lakes because they influence groundwater exchange (Lee, 2002;Sacks, 2002), they might not have a large effect on evaporation rates. Evaporation rates are mostly a function of radiant energy entering the lake (sunlight and longwave radiation), which is a function of season and cloud cover (Aslyng, 1974;Finch and Hall, 2005;Tanner and Lemon, 1962). Lake water-budget terms are linked to the energy budget, however, through the change in stored energy and latent and advected energy fluxes (Anderson, 1954).…”

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Comparison of evaporation at two central Florida lakes,<br> April 2005–November 2007

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2015

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Evaporation from April 2005 through October 2007 at two central Florida lakes, one close to the Gulf of Mexico and one in the center of the peninsula, was 4.043 and 4.111 meters (m), respectively; evaporation for 2006 was 1.534 and 1.538 m, respectively. Although annual evaporation rates at the two lakes were similar, there were monthly differences between the two lakes because of changes in stored heat; the shallower Lake Calm (mean depth 3 m) stored less heat and exchanged heat more rapidly than the deeper Lake Starr (mean depth 5 m). Both lakes are seepage lakes (no surface-water inflows or outflows) that are dependent on groundwater inflow from their basins to offset an atmospheric deficit, because long-term rainfall in this area is less than evaporation. The Lake Starr basin, where sandy, well-drained ridges surround the lake, has a greater capacity to store infiltrating rain than the Lake Calm basin, which is flat and has poorly drained soils. The storage capacities of the basins affect groundwater exchange with the lakes. Rainfall and net groundwater exchange, which is related to basin characteristics, varied more between these two lakes than did evaporation during this study.

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Evaporation from Lakes

Cited by 21 publications

References 52 publications

Evaporation from Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, Nevada and Arizona, 2010–2019

Evaporation from Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, Nevada and Arizona, 2010–2019

An Endorheic Lake in a Changing Climate: Geochemical Investigations at Lake Trasimeno (Italy)

Comparison of evaporation at two central Florida lakes,<br> April 2005–November 2007

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