Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida

Table 1

Annual mean (1992–2001) water budget for various land uses in Northeast Florida.

Water budget	Urban	Forest	Agriculture
Precipitation, 𝑃 (mm/day)	3.21	3.45	3.36
Evaporation, 𝐸 (mm/day)	3.09	2.96	2.95
Runoff, 𝑅 (mm/day)	N/A	0.01	0.01
^∗𝑑𝑊/𝑑𝑡	N/A	0.48	0.39
𝐸/𝑃	0.96	0.86	0.88
Potential evaporation, 𝑃𝐸 (mm/day)	5.44	5.67	5.39
𝑃/𝑃𝐸	0.59	0.61	0.62
𝑃𝐸−𝐸	2.36	2.71	2.44

^∗𝑑𝑊/𝑑𝑡: soil moisture change with time (𝑊= 0–200 mm soil moisture).