TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brutsaert, W.
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Global land surface evaporation trend during the past half century: Corroboration by Clausius-Clapeyron scaling
JO  - Advances in Water Resources
SP  - 3
EP  - 5
VL  - 106
KW  - Evaporation
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Evaporation trend
N2  - Analyses of satellite data mainly over the world’s ocean surfaces have shown that during 1986–2006 global average values of atmospheric water vapor, precipitation and evaporation have increased at a relative rate of 0.0013a−1; this is roughly in accordance with the Clausius-Clapeyron equation for the average temperature trend during this period, and amounts to 0.065K−1 at the average temperature of T=14∘C. Application of this concept over the world’s land surfaces yields an average global evaporation trend during the past half century of around 0.4 to 0.5 mma−2; this confirms the values obtained in previous studies with totally different methods.
SN  - 0309-1708
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030917081630375X
N1  - Tribute to Professor Garrison Sposito: An Exceptional Hydrologist and Geochemist
ID  - Brutsaert2017
ER  -