An open-source refactoring of the Canadian Small Lakes Model for estimates of evaporation from medium-sized reservoirs

Clark, M. Graham; Carey, Sean K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4911-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4911-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4911-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Development and technical paper

|

21 Jun 2024

Development and technical paper |

| 21 Jun 2024

An open-source refactoring of the Canadian Small Lakes Model for estimates of evaporation from medium-sized reservoirs

M. Graham Clark and Sean K. Carey

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4911-2024-supplement

Data sets

GIT Code and Data for Clark and Carey's "An open source refactoring of the Canadian small lakes model for estimates of evaporation from medium sized reservoirs" M. Graham Clark https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581750

Model code and software

GIT Code and Data for Clark and Carey's "An open source refactoring of the Canadian small lakes model for estimates of evaporation from medium sized reservoirs" M. Graham Clark https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581750

Short summary

This paper provides validation of the Canadian Small Lakes Model (CSLM) for estimating evaporation rates from reservoirs and a refactoring of the original FORTRAN code into MATLAB and Python, which are now stored in GitHub repositories. Here we provide direct observations of the surface energy exchange obtained with an eddy covariance system to validate the CSLM. There was good agreement between observations and estimations except under specific atmospheric conditions when evaporation is low.