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Record W4246614644 · doi:10.1017/cbo9781107110632.011

Evapotranspiration

2016· book-chapter· en· W4246614644 on OpenAlexaff
T. Andrew Black, Rachhpal S. Jassal

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2016
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEvapotranspirationTranspirationEnvironmental scienceSublimation (psychology)EvaporationHydrology (agriculture)Vegetation (pathology)Water vaporSnowWater cycleAtmospheric sciencesEcologyGeographyChemistryGeologyPhotosynthesisMeteorology

Abstract

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Introduction The Process of Evapotranspiration Evapotranspiration ( E ) is the combined processes of physical evaporation and biological transpiration, by which liquid water from open water, soil, and vegetation surfaces is transformed into vapor and transported into the atmosphere. For terrestrial ecosystems, these three components are referred to as evaporation from bare soil ( E s ), transpiration or water use by growing vegetation ( E t ), and evaporation from wet foliage of intercepted water ( E i ). Sublimation, the transformation of solid water (i.e., ice or snow) to water vapor, though generally considered separate from evapotranspiration, is considered here as part of E s or E i as the case may be. Energy is required to change the state of the molecules of water from liquid to vapor. This energy is known as the latent heat of vaporization of water ( λ ), and is provided by solar irradiance ( R s ) and, to a lesser extent, the ambient temperature of the air ( T a ). Also, as the liquid water intermolecular attractions decrease with the increase in temperature, λ decreases slightly with increasing temperature. The driving force to remove water vapor from the evaporating surface is the difference between the water vapor pressure at the evaporating surface and that of the surrounding atmosphere. As evaporation proceeds, the surrounding air becomes gradually saturated and the process will slow down and might stop if the wet air is not transferred to the atmosphere. As the replacement of the saturated air with drier air depends greatly on wind speed, air humidity and wind speed are also important controls of E . In the case of transpiration, liquid water, together with some nutrients, is taken up by the roots and transported through the plant to the leaves. While conversion of liquid water contained in plant tissues to water vapor occurs in the stomatal cavities of the leaf, vapor exchange with the atmosphere occurs through stomata. Thus, energy is required for evapotranspiration (evaporation from wet leaves and transpiration) to proceed from vegetation. In fact, the concept of evapotranspiration can be simplified as “water + energy = evapotranspiration.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.127

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.029

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.164
Teacher spread0.152 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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