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evapotranspiration
Sign in to savethumb|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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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- 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.