u_fcn: Wind function for lakes

Description Usage Arguments Value References

View source: R/wind_functions.R

Description

Calculates the wind function given the wind speed at 10m and the surface area of the lake, based on McJannet et al. (2008) Appendix B, Equation 10, as presented in Equation S11.24 in McMahon et al. (2013).

Usage

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u_fcn(u10, A)

Arguments

u10

wind speed at 10 m above ground surface (m/s)

A

area of the water body (km^2)

Value

ufcn

wind function from McJannet et al., 2008

References

McMahon, T. A., Peel, M. C., Lowe, L., Srikanthan, R., and McVicar, T. R. (2013). Estimating actual, potential, reference crop and pan evaporation using standard meteorological data: a pragmatic synthesis, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 1331–1363. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-1331-2013.

McJannet, D. L., Webster, I. T., Stenson, M. P., and Sherman, B.S. (2008). Estimating open water evaporation for the Murray-Darling Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project, CSIRO, Australia, 50 pp. Retrieved from http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/waterforahealthycountry/mdbsy/technical/U-OpenWaterEvaporation.pdf.


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