Beyond the “Artificial Lakes” Paradigm: Recognizing Reservoirs as Impounded Rivers in Evaporation Estimation
Songjun Han, Qiuhong Tang, Muchan Guo, Gang Zhao, Baozhong Zhang · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water (2026)
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This review critiques the common practice of treating reservoirs as lakes for evaporation estimation and argues for specialized models that account for the hybrid river-lake behavior and unique physical characteristics of impounded river systems.
Auto-indexed from OpenAlex and awaiting editorial review. This review critiques the common practice of treating reservoirs as lakes for evaporation estimation and argues for specialized models that account for the hybrid river-lake behavior and unique physical characteristics of impounded river systems.
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