Accessibility navigation


An evapotranspiration-interception model for urban areas

Grimmond, C. S. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-9415 and Oke, T. R. (1991) An evapotranspiration-interception model for urban areas. Water Resources Research, 27 (7). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 0043-1397

Full text not archived in this repository.

It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing.

To link to this item DOI: 10.1029/91WR00557

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:No Reading authors. Back catalogue items
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
ID Code:98284
Publisher:American Geophysical Union

University Staff: Request a correction | Centaur Editors: Update this record

Page navigation