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Evapotranspiration-Interception Model for Urban Areas. Grimmond, C. S. B.; Oke, Timothy R.

Abstract

A model to calculate evapotranspiration from urban areas over a wide range of meteorological conditions is presented. An evapotranspiration-interception approach is used because it is necessary to cope with the changing water availability on the surface, during and following rainfall or irrigation. The model is applicable to areas ranging from the size of city blocks to land use zones and time periods of one hour and longer. The modeled evaporation is compared with that from micrometeorological measurements conducted from January to June 1987 in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The results show that this approach to modeling urban evapotranspiration provides realistic hourly and daily estimates of the areally averaged latent heat flux and surface water state. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 1991 American Geophysical Union.

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Title
Evapotranspiration-Interception Model for Urban Areas.
Creator
Grimmond, C. S. B.; Oke, Timothy R.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Date Issued
1991
Description
A model to calculate evapotranspiration from urban areas over a wide range of meteorological conditions is presented. An evapotranspiration-interception approach is used because it is necessary to cope with the changing water availability on the surface, during and following rainfall or irrigation. The model is applicable to areas ranging from the size of city blocks to land use zones and time periods of one hour and longer. The modeled evaporation is compared with that from micrometeorological measurements conducted from January to June 1987 in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The results show that this approach to modeling urban evapotranspiration provides realistic hourly and daily estimates of the areally averaged latent heat flux and surface water state. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 1991 American Geophysical Union.
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Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2011-07-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0041943
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35929
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Geography, Department of
Citation
Grimmond, C.S.B.; Oke, Timothy R. 1991. Evapotranspiration-Interception Model for Urban Areas. Water Resources Research 27(7) 1739-1755
Publisher DOI
10.1029/91WR00557
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Oke, Timothy R.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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