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Daily evaporation rates computed using five methods at the LZ40 platform in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, December 2012 to December 2016

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Start Date
2012-12-01
End Date
2016-12-01

Citation

Shoemaker, W.B., Weber, B.J., and Daniels, A.M., 2024, Daily evaporation rates computed using five methods at the LZ40 platform in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, December 2012 to December 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XDE78Y.

Summary

Daily evaporation rates were calculated at the open-water LZ40-platform in the interior of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, from December 1, 2012 through December 31, 2016 using five methods (Shoemaker et al., 2024); specifically, the Penman, Priestly-Taylor, Mass-Transfer, Simple, and Turc equations. Bowen-ratio energy-budget derived daily evaporation rates calculated from micro-meteorological data at the LZ40 site (Wacker, 2020) are considered a standard by which to evaluate the five alternative evaporation methods. Parameterization of each of method and comparison of evaporation using each of the five methods to the Bowen ratio estimates are published by Shoemaker and others (2024).

Contacts

Point of Contact :
W Barclay Shoemaker
Originator :
W Barclay Shoemaker, Brian J Weber, Andre Daniels
Metadata Contact :
W Barclay Shoemaker
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

The purpose of the collection and compilation of these data are to quantify/estimate daily rates of open-water evaporation in Lake Okeechobee for use by water managers in Florida to help control water-levels and discharges from the Lake. A secondary goal is to compare alternative approaches for estimating evaporation that could reproduce the Bowen-ratio energy budget results reasonably well, while avoiding relatively-high instrumentation, operational and analysis costs associated with the Bowen-ratio energy budget approach.
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