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Research article
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21 Jan 2021
Research article |
| 21 Jan 2021
| 21 Jan 2021
At which timescale does the complementary principle perform best in evaporation estimation?
Liming Wang
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of
Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Songjun Han
State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in
River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research,
Beijing 100038, China
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of
Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Applicability of the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration for heterogeneous vegetation cover at boundary and plot scales C. Fu et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.102117
- Potential Evaporation and the Complementary Relationship Z. Tu et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033763
- Connotation analysis of parameters in the generalized nonlinear advection aridity model H. Zhou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108343
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Short summary
It remains unclear at which timescale the complementary principle performs best in estimating evaporation. In this study, evaporation estimation was assessed over 88 eddy covariance monitoring sites at multiple timescales. The results indicate that the generalized complementary functions perform best in estimating evaporation at the monthly scale. This study provides a reference for choosing a suitable time step for evaporation estimations in relevant studies.
It remains unclear at which timescale the complementary principle performs best in estimating...
