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Analysis on the Change in the Pan Evaporation Rate in the Coastal Zone  

Lee, Khil-Ha (GIS Research Institute, Kywongwon University)
Oh, Nam-Sun (Ocean Civil Engineering, Mokpo National Maritime University)
Jeong, Shin-Taek (School of Civil, Environmental & Urban Engineering, Wonkwang University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers / v.19, no.3, 2007 , pp. 244-252 More about this Journal
Abstract
A long-term change in the evaporation rate have an influence on the hydrologic processes at the interface between the land surface-air and crop yield. Several previous studies have reported declines in pan evaporation rate, while actual evaporation rate is expected to increase due to anthropogenic global change in the future. The decreasing trend of pan evaporation rate might be involved with global warming and accordingly the trend of annual pan evaporation rate also needs to be checked here in Korea. In this study, 14 points of pan evaporation observation are intensively studied to investigate the trend of pan evaporation for the time period of 1970-2000. Annual pan evaporation is decreasing at the rate of 1.6mm/yr, which corresponds to approximately 50mm for 30 years. Annual pan evaporation rate is larger by $\sim10%$ at the coastal area and decreasing rate is faster as -2.46 mm/yr per year, while that is -0.82 mm/yr per year at the in-land area. The results of the Mann-Kendall trend test shows 4 points are decreasing and 10 points are unchanged with 95% confidence interval. But national annual average values show the decreasing trend of pan evaporation rate as a whole, which corresponds to general trend all over the world. This study will contribute to a variety of studies on water resources, hydrology, agricultural engineering, meteorology, and coastal engineering in association with future global climate change.
Keywords
Evaporation rate; Pan Evaporation rate; Mann-Kendall trend test; Climate change;
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