Articles | Volume 22, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4535-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4535-2018
Research article
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28 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 28 Aug 2018

Exploring the relationships between warm-season precipitation, potential evaporation, and “apparent” potential evaporation at site scale

Xi Chen and Steven G. Buchberger

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Based on warm season data from 259 weather stations across the US, we analyze the correlation between precipitation, potential evaporation, and “apparent” potential evaporation (measured by pan evaporation). Over 93 % of the stations show negative correlation between precipitation and apparent potential evaporation, but no clear relationship is shown between precipitation and potential evaporation. The collected data points follow the trend of the newly derived Bouchet–Budyko curve.