A Biophysical Process-Based Estimate of Global Land Surface Evaporation Using Satellite and Ancillary Data

Abstract

The rich history and many fundamental investigations of the global land surface evaporation can be found in Korzun (1978), and Korzun’s monograph can also provide an appreciation of the care and the effort involved in such investigations. Recent contributions include those by Willmott et al. (1985), Henning (1989), Mintz and Walker (1993) and Oki et al. (1995). These investigations, except for Oki et al. (1995), are based upon long-term average surface meteorological observations and, in some cases, river runoff data.