Overview
- This book takes a larger (global) approach than previous books in the field
- Older books were dealing with evapotranspiration as a process of water vapour transport between evaporating surface and atmosphere, but this book is presenting evapotranspiration as a catenary process performing in the soil water transport, root extraction patterns, reflecting soil water content profiles
- The most succesful and effective methods of evapotranspiration and its structure is described in detail, using up-to-date methods of estimation
Part of the book series: Progress in Soil Science (PROSOIL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Evapotranspiration and its components (evaporation and transpiration) as a process is one of the basic terms of Earth's water balance; its importance is accented by the fact that transpiration is the vital element of the biomass production process. The second important property of evapotranspiration is its extreme consumption of solar energy, thus controlling the temperature of the atmosphere and creating favourable conditions for life. Evapotranspiration as an energy consuming process is also the connection between the energy and mass cycles of the Earth. Evapotranspiration is a process performing in the Soil–Plant –Atmosphere System (SPAS); therefore this book is presenting and quantifying it as a catenary process, describing transport of water in the soil, including root extraction patterns and methods of its evaluation. Transport of water through the plant and from the canopy to the atmosphere is also described and quantified. A variety of evapotranspiration (and its componentsevaporation and transpiration) calculation methods are described, starting from empirical methods up to the most sophisticated ones based on the solution of the transport equations of water and energy in the SPAS. The most important (and widely used) calculation method - modified Penman–Monteith method is described in details, ready to be used with data in the book only. Water balance method of evapotranspiration estimation as well as sap flow method description can be found in the book as well. The book can be used by hydrologists, biologists, meteorologists and other specialists as well as by ecology students.
Key themes: soil hydrology – evapotranspiration – hydropedology– plant physiology – water movement in soils – evaporation – transpiration
Dr. Viliam Novák is a water resources scientist at the Institute of Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evapotranspiration in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System
Authors: Viliam Novák
Series Title: Progress in Soil Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3840-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3839-3Published: 28 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9758-1Published: 18 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3840-9Published: 25 June 2012
Series ISSN: 2352-4774
Series E-ISSN: 2352-4782
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 256
Topics: Hydrogeology, Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology, Systems Biology