Geology 3266 Hydrology

Homework 7

1. On a winter day, the automated weather station near Weston Mill Pond in New
Brunswick recorded the following values: the average Air Temperature was 27 oF ,
the average Wind Speed was 5 mph, and the average Relative Humidity was 40%.
TODO: Estimate Evaporation using the Harbeck and Meyers (1970) formula.

Suggested steps:
a. Convert the air temperature to Celsius.
o

C = 5/9 (F 32)

b. Look up e sat , in mb, for the air temperature given. A lookup applet is here, just
be sure to change the temperature units to Celsius:
http://hurri.kean.edu/~yoh/calculations/satvap/satvap.html
e sat = _________ mb.
c. Calculate the vapor pressure e from esat and RH

d. Convert wind speed in miles per hour to SI units m/sec.

e. Plug in your values to estimate E in cm/day.

E = _______cm/day

2. Using a Penman-Kohler Nomograph, find the daily evaporation from a small

lake with the following characteristics:
Mean daily temperature

= 25.6 o C

Daily solar radiation

= 550 langleys= 550 calories/cm2

Mean daily dewpoint

= 4.4 o C

Wind movement

= 5.5 feet/sec

Hint: The chart has been constructed for temperature units of oF, solar radiation
units of cal/cm2 , and wind speeds of miles/day, so the given measurements must
be in those units before the chart can be used.
a. Convert the Mean daily temperature to degrees Fahrenheit.
o

F = 9/5 oC + 32

b. Daily solar radiation is already in the correct units

c. Convert the Mean daily dew point temperature to degrees Fahrenheit.

d. Convert the wind movement to miles/day

e. Follow the procedure given in the example problem while using the chart.

f.

E = _____ inches