Rediscovering Robert E. Horton's lake evaporation  formulae: new directions for evaporation physics

Vimal, Solomon; Singh, Vijay P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-445-2022

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Rediscovering Robert E. Horton's lake evaporation formulae: new directions for evaporation physics

Solomon Vimal and Vijay P. Singh

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Short summary

Evaporation from open water is a well-studied problem in hydrology. Robert E. Horton, unknown to most investigators on the subject, studied it in great detail by conducting experiments and relating them to physical laws. His work furthered known theories of lake evaporation but was not recognized. This is unfortunate because it performs better than five variously complex methods across scales (local to continental; 30 min–2 months) and seems quite relevant for climate-change-era problems.