Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-657-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-657-2019
Review article
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06 Feb 2019
Review article |  | 06 Feb 2019

Modelling Lake Titicaca's daily and monthly evaporation

Ramiro Pillco Zolá, Lars Bengtsson, Ronny Berndtsson, Belen Martí-Cardona, Frederic Satgé, Franck Timouk, Marie-Paule Bonnet, Luis Mollericon, Cesar Gamarra, and José Pasapera

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The evaporation was computed at a daily time step and compared with the estimated evaporation using mean monthly meteorological observations. We found that the most reliable method of determining the annual lake evaporation is using the heat balance approach.