Little is known about the effects of surface water over land on the decay of landfalling hurricanes. This study, using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory hurricane model, examines the surface temperature changes due to hurricane–land surface water interactions, and their effects on the surface heat fluxes, hurricane structure, and intensity...

Introduction: In-depth analysis of evaporitic sediments at Meridiani Planum by the Opportunity Rover has highlighted the importance of fluid evaporation at the martian surface [1]. Previous work aimed at understanding the controls on evaporation and the resulting mineral assemblages has been largely theoretical [2]. Some recent experimental work has focused on evaporite minerals at the martian ...

Evaporation of a sessile droplet is a complex, nonequilibrium phenomenon. Although evaporating droplets upon superhydrophobic surfaces have been known to exhibit distinctive evaporation modes such as a constant contact line (CCL), a constant contact angle (CCA), or both, our fundamental understanding of the effects of surface roughness on the wetting transition remains elusive. We show that the...

Uncertainties in quantifying the kinetics of evaporation and condensation of water from atmospheric aerosol are a significant contributor to the uncertainty in predicting cloud droplet number and the indirect effect of aerosols on climate. The influence of aerosol particle surface composition, particularly the impact of surface active organic films, on the condensation and evaporation coefficie...

1. Introduction Since the first measurements of the velocity distribution of atoms evaporating from the surface of bulk liquid helium by Johnston and King, several theories have been advanced to explain the helium evaporation process. In these theories, the excita-tions in liquid He II, phonons and rotons, play an important role in the evaporation mechanism. In this report, we discuss an experi...

Remote sensing data in the thermal infra red (TIR) part of the spectrum provides indirect estimates of water stress – defined as a function of the ratio between actual and potential evaporation rates – at the earth surface. During the first stage of evaporation (‘‘energy limited’’ evaporation), this ratio is close to one. During the second stage of evaporation (‘‘soil controlled’’ evaporation) ...

[1] The analytical solution of the coupled turbulent diffusion equations of heat and vapor transport across a moisture discontinuity under near-neutral atmospheric conditions and constant energy available at the evaporating surface yields a simple equation (i.e., the wet-surface equation [WSE]) that relates the change in surface temperature to the change in the land surface moisture content as ...

When a snail withdraws into its shell the only parts of the body left exposed to the air are a number of fleshy extensions of the mantle; the so-called mantle collar. This area of the body is a potentially serious source of water loss in the inactive terrestrial snail. The evaporation of water from active specimens of the common garden snail, Helix aspersa, is nearly identical to that from a fr...

The current study presents the design features and photovoltaic requirements of a floating photovoltaic plant (FPVP) whose purpose is to reduce the evaporation from the surface of a water reservoir while generating electricity. A summary of the energy budget method is also introduced to calculate the rate of evaporation from the water reservoir behind 15-Khordad dam. The top of the reservoi...

Energetic, structural, and dynamical properties of solid-to-liquid and liquid-to-vapor interfaces and molecular evaporation and condensation processes from high-temperature liquid n-C6Ht4 and n-Ct6Hs4 films were investigated with molecular dynamics simulations. For hexadecane all evaporation events occurred via monomers while for hexane, evaporation of monomers as well as dimers were observed. ...