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Evaporation and sensible heat flux into the atmosphere require the availability of some form of energy at the earth-atmosphere interface. This question can be treated quantitatively by considering the equation for the energy budget for a layer of surface material. Depending on the nature of the surface, this layer may consist of water, or of some other substrate like soil, canopy or snow; although this layer can be taken to be infinitesimally thin, it may sometimes even comprise a lake or a vegetational canopy over its entire depth.
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Brutsaert, W. (1982). Energy Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface. In: Evaporation into the Atmosphere. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1497-6_6
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