Abstract
For two locations, Arkhangelsk and Vienna, the seasonal evaporation of precipitation below the cloud base has been calculated by employing mean vertical profiles of temperature and humidity derived from radiosonde ascents taken on days with precipitation. The mean cloud base was assumed to coincide with the level of maximum humidity. This probably overestimates the evaporation in the subcloud layer, as this level is more likely to represent the region of highest production of precipitation. Therefore the cloud base should be located somewhere below it.It is found that over Arkhangelsk the evaporation of precipitation is in both seasons lower than over Vienna, where the humidity in the subcloud layer is lower than in Arkhangelsk. On the average about 35 % of the precipitation produced in clouds over Arkhangelsk evaporates, in Vienna almost 50 % evaporates before reaching the ground. During the winter most evaporation takes place near the ground, during the summer at mid levels between 1500 and 2000 m.
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