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This is a bit of inside baseball but many climate models use something called a "bulk formula" for evaporation [], which is empirically derived from real observ

• schiffern 3y ago
  >real observations of the sea surface I suspect this effect is more relevant to plant transpiration, which has a massive effect on terrestrial rainfall patterns.[0] Do they use similar methodologies to capture land-based evapotranspiration? Does the resulting simplified model have inputs that allow it to capture real-world variations in this effect? [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983