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ESTIMATES OF MONTHLY AND ANNUAL EVAPORATION RATES AND EVAPORATED VOLUMES PER UNIT TIME IN THE TUCURUÍ-PA AND LAJEADO-TO HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT RESERVOIRS BASED ON DIFFERENT METHODS

ABSTRACT

Evaporation rates in reservoirs influence the volume of water available for multiple uses. Thus, the objective of this study was to estimate the evaporation rates and the evaporated volumes per unit time in the Tucuruí-PA and Lajeado-TO reservoirs based on the methods in Linacre (1993)Linacre ET (1993) Data-sparse estimation of lake evaporation using a simplified Penman equation. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 64:237-256., Kohler et al. (1955)Kohler MA, Nordensen TJ, Fox WE (1955) Evaporation from pans and lakes. U.S. Weather Bureau Research 38:1-21., Morton (1983)Morton FI (1983) Operational estimates of areal evaporation and their significance to the science and pratice of hydrology. Journal of Hydrology 66:1-76., Bruin & Keijman (1979)Bruin HAR de, Keijman JQ (1979) The Priestley-Taylor evaporation model applied to a large, shallow lake in the Netherlands. Journal of Applied Meteorology 18(7):898-903. and Penman (1948)Penman HL (1948) Natural evaporation from open water, bare soil and grass. Proceedings of the Royal Society 193:120-145. method was adopted as the standard. The mean annual evaporation rates in the Tucuruí and Lajeado reservoirs, estimated by the Penman method, were similar, with values of 1,784 mm and 1,882 mm, respectively. None of the alternative analyzed methods could be used to estimate the mean annual evaporation in the Tucuruí and Lajeado reservoirs and could not replace the Penman method. However, the Linacre (1993)Linacre ET (1993) Data-sparse estimation of lake evaporation using a simplified Penman equation. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 64:237-256. and Bruin & Keijman (1979)Bruin HAR de, Keijman JQ (1979) The Priestley-Taylor evaporation model applied to a large, shallow lake in the Netherlands. Journal of Applied Meteorology 18(7):898-903. methods could be used to estimate monthly evaporation during the dry season in Tucuruí. The mean evaporated volume per unit time and the mean net evaporated volume per unit time in the Tucuruí reservoir correspond to 120% and 50%, respectively, of the total water demand in the Tocantins-Araguaia region, while the mean evaporated volume per unit time and the mean net evaporated volume per unit time in the Lajeado reservoir correspond to 120% and 50%, respectively, of the total water demand in the basin.

KEYWORDS
lake evaporation; multiple water uses; water resources

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