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evapotranspiration

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thumb|right|260px|Water cycle of the Earth's surface, showing the individual components of transpiration and evaporation that make up evapotranspiration. Other closely related processes shown are runoff and [[groundwater recharge.]]

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Contents
  • Definition
  • Influencing factors
  • Primary factors
  • Secondary factors
  • Vegetation type
  • Vegetation coverage
  • Soil and irrigation
  • Measurements
  • Direct measurement
  • Indirect estimation
  • Catchment water balance
  • Energy balance
  • Estimation from meteorological data
  • Potential evapotranspiration
  • List of remote sensing based evapotranspiration models
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

thumb|right|260px|Water cycle of the Earth's surface, showing the individual components of transpiration and evaporation that make up evapotranspiration. Other closely related processes shown are runoff and [[groundwater recharge.]]

thumb|alt=pet|Global distribution of potential evapotranspiration averaged over the years 1981–2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “evapotranspiration” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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