The warmer than average winter has led to limited ice cover on the Great Lakes as of January 27, 2020. Evaporation can be higher when ice cover is lacking, but it’s not a certainty. Evaporation ...

But as temperatures continue to get warmer, so will lakes. As global average temperatures rise, lake evaporation is projected to increase at double the rate of ocean evaporation. However ...

The southern and western United States have the greatest capacity to produce evaporation-generated power from lakes and reservoirs, a new study in Nature Communications finds. (Columbia University) ...

But climate change caused by burning fossil fuels has brought about higher average atmospheric temperatures and has increased the contributions of evaporation to drought severity, the researchers ...