<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Evaporation of water from the soil is described and quantified. Formation of the soil dry surface layer is quantitatively described, as a process resulting from the difference between the evaporation and upward soil water flux to the soil evaporating level. The results of evaporation analysis are generalized even for the case of water evaporation from the soil under canopy and interaction between evaporation rate and canopy transpiration is accounted for. Relationships describing evapotranspiration increase due to evaporation of the water intercepted by canopy are presented. Indirect methods of evapotranspiration estimation are discussed, based on the measured temperature profiles and of the air humidity, as well as of the net radiation and the soil heat fluxes.</p></abstract>

Evaporation of water from the soil is described and quantified. Formation of the soil dry surface layer is quantitatively described, as a process resulting from the difference between the evaporation and upward soil water flux to the soil evaporating level. The results of evaporation analysis are generalized even for the case of water evaporation from the soil under canopy and interaction between evaporation rate and canopy transpiration is accounted for. Relationships describing evapotranspiration increase due to evaporation of the water intercepted by canopy are presented. Indirect methods of evapotranspiration estimation are discussed, based on the measured temperature profiles and of the air humidity, as well as of the net radiation and the soil heat fluxes.

THEORY OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: 2. Soil and intercepted water evaporation

Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina St. 3, 117 971 Moscow, Russian Federation

Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Racianska 75, 831 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Europe

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Evaporation of water from the soil is described and quantified. Formation of the soil dry surface layer is quantitatively described, as a process resulting...

THEORY OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: 2. Soil and intercepted water evaporation

Published Online: Jun 16, 2011

Page range: 73 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10098-011-0006-8

Keywords
evapotranspirácia, transpirácia, evaporácia, pôdna voda, bilancia vody

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THEORY OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: 2. Soil and intercepted water evaporation

Published Online: Jun 16, 2011

Page range: 73 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10098-011-0006-8

Keywordsevapotranspirácia, transpirácia, evaporácia, pôdna voda, bilancia vody

This content is open access.

Keywords
evapotranspirácia, transpirácia, evaporácia, pôdna voda, bilancia vody