Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Notation ; Part 1: Basic Concepts; Part 2: Evapotranspiration from Land Surfaces; Part 3: Water Requirement Estimates ; Appendix A: Conversion and Meteorological Tables; Appendix B: Mean Crop Coefficients in Subhumid Climates; Appendix C: Lengths of Crop Development Stages; Appendix D: Basal Crop Coefficients in Subhumid Climates; Appendix E: Mean and Basal Crop Coefficients for Crops Common to Temperate and Continental Climates; Appendix F: Basal Crop Coefficients for Crops Common to Temperate and Continental Climates with Thermal Basis.
  • Appendix G: Documentation for Crop Coefficient and ET Data Reporting and Determination of ET from Remote SensingAppendix H: Weather Data Integrity; Appendix I: Contribution of Capillary Flow from a Shallow Water Table to Evaporation and Evapotranspiration; Appendix J: Derivation of the Penman-Monteith Equation; Appendix K: Regional Estimating Methods and Methods Not Commonly Used in the United States; Appendix L: Comparison and Ranking of Methods for Estimating ET; Appendix M: Glossary; References ; Index ; Chapter 1: Introduction and History.
  • Chapter 2: Evaporation and Evapotranspiration ProcessesChapter 3: Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System; Chapter 4: Energy Balance; Chapter 5: Surface-Energy and Air-Mass Interactions and the Concept of Reference ET; Chapter 6: Evaporation from Water Surfaces; Chapter 7: Water and Energy Balance Components for Measurement and Estimation; Chapter 8: Reference Crop ET; Chapter 9: Evaporation from Soil; Chapter 10: Crop Coefficient Method; Chapter 11: Direct Penman-Monteith and Aerodynamic Energy Balance Equations; Chapter 12: Regional Estimates of Evapotranspiration.
  • Chapter 13: Selection of Appropriate Estimating Method Chapter 14: Estimates of Irrigation Water Requirements and Streamflow Depletion; 1.1 Introduction to Second Edition; 1.2 Development of ET and CU Studies in the United States; 1.3 Revised Edition; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Water Budget; 2.3 The Energy Budget; 2.4 Controlling Factors; 2.5 Estimating Concepts; 2.6 Measurement Methods; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Physical Properties of Water, Water Vapor, and Air; 3.3 Soil Properties; 3.4 Soil-Water System; 3.5 Vegetative (Crop) Properties; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Energy Balance; 4.3 Net Radiation.
  • 4.4 Soil Heat Flux Density 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Weather and Surface Effects on Conversion of Energy to Latent Heat Flux; 5.3 Standardization of the Vegetative Cover; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Methods of Estimating Water Surface Evaporation; 6.3 Example Applications of Evaporation Estimation Methods and Measurements; 6.4 Summary of Methods for Estimating Evaporation from Water Bodies; 7.1 Introduction to Chapters 7-12; 7.2 Volumetric Measurements for Estimating Land Surface ET; 7.3 Mass Balance Methods; 7.4 Energy Balance Methods-Bowen Ratio; 7.5 Mass Transfer Method Using Eddy Covariance.
  • 7.6 Fetch Requirements for Boundary Layer Measurement.