Effect of Salinity on Evaporation from Water Surface in Bench-Scale Testing

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dc.contributor.authorSuchan, Jared
dc.contributor.authorAzam, Shahid
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-15T17:30:16Z
dc.date.available2022-08-15T17:30:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-29
dc.descriptionCopyright: © 2021 by the authors. This article is distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractFreshwater and hypersaline lakes in arid and semi-arid environments are crucial from agri- cultural, industrial, and ecological perspectives. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effect of salinity on evaporation from water surfaces. The main achievement of this research is the successful capture of simulated climate–surface interactions prevalent in the Canadian Prairies using a custom-built bench-scale atmospheric simulator. Test results indicated that the evaporative flux has a large variation during spring (water/brine: 1452/764 10−4 g·s−1·m−2 and 613/230 × 10−4 g·s−1·m−2 night) and summer (1856/1187 × 10−4 g·s−1·m−2 day and 1059/394 × 10−4g·s−1·m−2 night), and small variation in the fall (1591/915 × 10−4 g·s−1·m−2 and 1790/1048 × 10−4 g·s−1·m−2 night). The primary theoretical contribution of this research is that the evaporation rate from distilled water is twice that of saturated brine. The measured data for water correlated well with mathematical estimates; data scatter was evenly distributed and within one standard deviation of the equality line, whereas the brine data mostly plotted above the equality line. The newly developed 2:1 water–brine correlation for evaporation was found to follow the combination equations with the Monteith model best matching the measurements.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.citationwaterArticle Effect of Salinity on Evaporation from Water Surface in Bench-Scale Testing Jared Suchan and Shahid Azam * Citation: Suchan, J.; Azam, S. Effect of Salinity on Evaporation from Water Surface in Bench-Scale Testing. Water 2021, 13, 2067. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13152067en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/w13152067
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15042
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleEffect of Salinity on Evaporation from Water Surface in Bench-Scale Testingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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