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On the variability of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient over water bodies Assouline, Shmuel; Li, Dan; Tyler, Scott; Tanny, Josef; Cohen, Shabtai; Bou-Zeid, Elie; Parlange, Marc B.; Katul, Gabriel G.
Abstract
Deviations in the Priestley-Taylor (PT) coefficient aPT from its accepted 1.26 value are analyzed over large lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands where stomatal or soil controls are minimal or absent. The data sets feature wide variations in water body sizes and climatic conditions. Neither surface temperature nor sensible heat flux variations alone, which proved successful in characterizing aPT variations over some crops, explain measured deviations in aPT over water. It is shown that the relative transport efficiency of turbulent heat and water vapor is key to explaining variations in aPT over water surfaces, thereby offering a new perspective over the concept of minimal advection or entrainment introduced by PT. Methods that allow the determination of aPT based on low-frequency sampling (i.e., 0.1 Hz) are then developed and tested, which are usable with standard meteorological sensors that filter some but not all turbulent fluctuations. Using approximations to the Gram determinant inequality, the relative transport efficiency is derived as a function of the correlation coefficient between temperature and water vapor concentration fluctuations (RTq). The proposed approach reasonably explains the measured deviations from the conventional aPT51.26 value even when RTq is determined from air temperature and water vapor concentration time series that are Gaussian-filtered and subsampled to a cutoff frequency of 0.1 Hz. Because over water bodies, RTq deviations from unity are often associated with advection and/or entrainment, linkages between aPT and RTq offer both a diagnostic approach to assess their significance and a prognostic approach to correct the 1.26 value when using routine meteorological measurements of temperature and humidity.
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On the variability of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient over water bodies
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2016-01-11
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Deviations in the Priestley-Taylor (PT) coefficient aPT from its accepted 1.26 value are analyzed
over large lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands where stomatal or soil controls are minimal or absent. The data
sets feature wide variations in water body sizes and climatic conditions. Neither surface temperature nor
sensible heat flux variations alone, which proved successful in characterizing aPT variations over some crops,
explain measured deviations in aPT over water. It is shown that the relative transport efficiency of turbulent
heat and water vapor is key to explaining variations in aPT over water surfaces, thereby offering a new perspective
over the concept of minimal advection or entrainment introduced by PT. Methods that allow the
determination of aPT based on low-frequency sampling (i.e., 0.1 Hz) are then developed and tested, which
are usable with standard meteorological sensors that filter some but not all turbulent fluctuations. Using
approximations to the Gram determinant inequality, the relative transport efficiency is derived as a function
of the correlation coefficient between temperature and water vapor concentration fluctuations (RTq). The
proposed approach reasonably explains the measured deviations from the conventional aPT51.26 value
even when RTq is determined from air temperature and water vapor concentration time series that are
Gaussian-filtered and subsampled to a cutoff frequency of 0.1 Hz. Because over water bodies, RTq deviations
from unity are often associated with advection and/or entrainment, linkages between aPT and RTq offer both
a diagnostic approach to assess their significance and a prognostic approach to correct the 1.26 value when
using routine meteorological measurements of temperature and humidity.
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eng
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2017-01-21
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0339774
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Assouline, S., D. Li, S. Tyler, J. Tanny, S. Cohen, E. Bou-Zeid, M. Parlange, and G. G. Katul (2016), On the variability of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient over water bodies, Water Resour. Res., 52, 150–163.
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10.1002/2015WR017504.
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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