The complementary relationship and generation of the Budyko functions

• Published in: Geophysical research letters Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 1781 - 1790
• Main Authors: Zhou, Sha, Yu, Bofu, Huang, Yuefei, Wang, Guangqian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 28.03.2015
• Subjects: Atmospheric precipitations; Budyko functions; Climate; Climate change; complementary relationship; Constraining; Elasticity; Energy; Evapotranspiration; generating function; Geophysics; Hydrology; Mathematical analysis; Meteorology; Methods; Potential evapotranspiration; Precipitation; Properties; Runoff; Sensitivity analysis; Unity; Watersheds

The Budyko hypothesis states that the ratio of the actual evapotranspiration over precipitation (E/P) is fundamentally related to the ratio of the potential evapotranspiration over precipitation (E0/P). A number of Budyko functions have been proposed to describe such a relationship between E0/P and...