Evapotranspiration (ET) is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration. Evaporation accounts for the movement of water to the air from sources such as the soil, canopy interception, and waterbodies ...

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Evapotranspiration is a scientific measurement representing the combined sum of evaporation from the soil (or water) surface to the atmosphere and transpiration from plants, where liquid water inside ...