Evaporation from the Oceans

The problem of evaporation from the oceans has received little attention compared to that directed towards the study of evaporation from lakes and land surfaces. One of the reasons for this is that the results of the latter, being of great interest to the hydrological engineers, are of immediate economic importance. Furthermore, until recently, weather forecasting has been concerned primarily with forecasting over land areas, for which purpose it has been sufficient to know that air which has travelled over the oceans contains a great deal of moisture, but it has not been necessary to ask how this moisture has been added to the air. With the rapid development of air routes across the oceans, accurate weather forecasts for ocean areas are needed, and in this connection the question of how air masses are modified when passing over water becomes important. When dealing with this modification, knowledge of evaporation as a function of the meteorological conditions near the sea surface becomes indispensable. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.