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Wilfried Brutsaert

Wilfried Brutsaert

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
21292
World Ranking
1198
National Ranking
543

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For innovations in the theory of evaporation from natural surfaces into the atmosphere and for its measurement at field scale.
  • 1982 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Wilfried Brutsaert is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily resides in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader areas, their work spans diverse subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Physiology, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

Their scholarly contributions address several intertwined topics, notably Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Thermoregulation and physiological responses, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Brutsaert has published in multiple respected venues, particularly Water Resources Research, where they have two publications, as well as the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

  • Diego G. Miralles
  • A. J. Dolman
  • J. H. C. Gash
  • Lu Zhang
  • Xiaomang Liu

Frequent co-authors in Brutsaert's work include Diego G. Miralles, A. J. Dolman, J. H. C. Gash, Lu Zhang, and Xiaomang Liu.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "On the Use of the Term "Evapotranspiration"" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Blending the Evaporation Precipitation Ratio With the Complementary Principle Function for the Prediction of Evaporation" (2021), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Mutual Consistency of Groundwater Storage Changes Derived From GRACE and From Baseflow Recessions in the Central Yangtze River Basin" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Brutsaert is also an author of a book titled Hydrology, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Recognition for Brutsaert's contributions includes election as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994, noted for innovations in the theory of evaporation from natural surfaces into the atmosphere and its measurement at field scale.

Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Evaporation into the Atmosphere: Theory, History and Applications

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Evaporation into the atmosphere

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • On a derivable formula for long-wave radiation from clear skies

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Hydrology: An Introduction

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Hydrologic cycle explains the evaporation paradox

    W. Brutsaert;M. B. Parlange

  • Regionalized drought flow hydrographs from a mature glaciated plateau

    Wilfried Brutsaert;John L. Nieber

  • An advection-aridity approach to estimate actual regional evapotranspiration.

    Wilfried Brutsaert;Han Stricker

  • PROBABILITY LAWS FOR PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Application of self‐preservation in the diurnal evolution of the surface energy budget to determine daily evaporation

    Wilfried Brutsaert;Michiaki Sugita

  • A theory for local evaporation(or heat transfer)from rough and smooth surfaces at ground level.

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Effective water table depth to describe initial conditions prior to storm rainfall in humid regions

    Peter A. Troch;François P. De Troch;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Some Methods of Calculating Unsaturated Permeability

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • The Roughness Length for Water Vapor Sensible Heat, and Other Scalars.

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Flux-profile Relationships for Wind Speed and Temperature in the Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    Yinguo Chenge;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • The unit response of groundwater outflow from a hillslope

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Long‐term groundwater storage trends estimated from streamflow records: Climatic perspective

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Basin-scale geohydrologic drought flow features of riparian aquifers in the Southern Great Plains

    Wilfried Brutsaert;James P. Lopez

  • Daily evaporation over a region from lower boundary layer profiles measured with radiosondes

    Michiaki Sugita;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Aspects of bulk atmospheric boundary layer similarity under free-convective conditions

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • A generalized complementary principle with physical constraints for land-surface evaporation

    Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Daytime evaporation and the self-preservation of the evaporative fraction and the Bowen ratio

    Richard Cragoa;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Complementary relationship between daily evaporation in the environment and pan evaporation

    David M. Kahler;David M. Kahler;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Recession characteristics of groundwater outflow and base flow from mountainous watersheds

    Yemane B. Zecharias;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • Gas transfer at water surfaces

    Wilfried Brutsaert;Gerhard H. Jirka

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lei Cheng
Lei Cheng Wuhan University
Gerhard H. Jirka
Gerhard H. Jirka Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Xiaomang Liu
Xiaomang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changming Liu
Changming Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Elie Bou-Zeid
Elie Bou-Zeid Princeton University
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Martin Vetterli
Martin Vetterli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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