Reply to Comment on “On the Estimation of Potential Evaporation Under Wet and Dry Conditions” by Jozsef Szilagyi

We appreciate Dr. Szilagyi's interest in our work of recovering surface temperature and evaporation to a “hypothetical” saturated condition. Dr. Szilagyi criticized our approach by arguing that the recovered surface temperature is unphysically low. Here we reply to Dr. Szilagyi's concern b...

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Published in:Water resources research 2022-10, Vol.58 (10), p.n/a
Main Authors: Yang, Yuting, Tu, Zhuoyi, Roderick, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Evaporation
Evaporation rate
maximum evaporation
Potential evaporation
radiatio
Surface temperature
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Summary:We appreciate Dr. Szilagyi's interest in our work of recovering surface temperature and evaporation to a “hypothetical” saturated condition. Dr. Szilagyi criticized our approach by arguing that the recovered surface temperature is unphysically low. Here we reply to Dr. Szilagyi's concern by showing that our recovered surface temperature is not unphysically low and is physically attainable. In addition, our approach strictly follows the definition of potential evaporation by Wilfried Brutsaert (2015). Key Points The recovered surface temperature using the maximum evaporation approach is physically attainable Allowing net radiation vary with surface wetting/drying is more universally valid The maximum evaporation approach best follows the definition of potential evaporation by Wilfried Brutsaert (2015)
ISSN:0043-1397
1944-7973
DOI:10.1029/2022WR033674