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As part of a feasibility study for HEIFE, a Sino-Japanese Cooperative Research Program on Atmosphere-Land Surface Processes in Heihe River Basin, fluxes of water vapour are estimated above and below the sand surface. It is found that during the daytime under clear skies, the water vapour flux is directed towards the surface from both the atmosphere above and the sand below.
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Wang, J., Mitsuta, Y. Evaporation from the desert: Some preliminary results of HEIFE. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 59, 413–418 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02215461
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02215461