An extremum principle of evaporation
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[1] It is proposed, on the basis of an argument of thermodynamic equilibrium, that land-atmosphere interactive processes lead to thermal and hydrologic states of the land surface that maximize evaporation in a given meteorological environment. The extremum principle leads to general equations linking surface energy fluxes to surface temperature and soil moisture. The hypothesis of maximum evaporation has been tested with data from three field experiments. We found strong evidence suggesting that evaporation is maximized and furthermore that it is determined by the state variables (temperature, soil moisture, and sensible heat flux into the atmosphere) and relatively insensitive to water vapor pressure deficit. The theory allows an independent estimate of the coefficient in the Priestley-Taylor formula for potential evaporation, which is consistent with the widely accepted value of 1.26.
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