evapotranspiration
noun
evapo·trans·pi·ra·tion
i-ˈva-pō-ˌtran(t)-spə-ˈrā-shən 
: loss of water from the soil both by evaporation and by transpiration from the plants growing thereon
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The Amazon rainforest has long had a net cooling effect on the planet, by a process scientists call evapotranspiration.
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Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Soil moisture sensors show, over time, how much water has gone into the ground, and how much has left, either from drainage or in the form of evapotranspiration from plants.
—Susan Moran, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2013
In scientific circles, the process has a slightly more dignified name: evapotranspiration.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
Green spaces such as parks and golf courses, in contrast, reduce heat levels in neighborhoods by lowering surface and air temperatures through evapotranspiration.
—Terri Adams-Fuller, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
In the mean time, urban planners suggest applying lighter coating on roads and rooftops to reflect more heat away from cities and adding rooftop gardens to increase urban vegetation, which can help lower air temperature through a process known as evapotranspiration.
—The Week, 12 July 2021
Want to find a truck in a field (use machine vision on multispectral data), if new vegetation is growing near a power line (NDVI time series from hyperspectral imagery) or if crops are under-watered (look for a decline in measured evapotranspiration)?
—Rachel Olney, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
In all, Gro computers hoover up 650 trillion data points from more than 40,000 data sets—crop forecasts, satellite images, topography, reports on precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration—to provide insights into 15,000 different agricultural products.
—Eben Shapiro, Time, 21 Feb. 2021
It’s connected to the evapotranspiration of plants.
—Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Soil moisture sensors show, over time, how much water has gone into the ground, and how much has left, either from drainage or in the form of evapotranspiration from plants.
—Susan Moran, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2013
In scientific circles, the process has a slightly more dignified name: evapotranspiration.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
Green spaces such as parks and golf courses, in contrast, reduce heat levels in neighborhoods by lowering surface and air temperatures through evapotranspiration.
—Terri Adams-Fuller, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
In the mean time, urban planners suggest applying lighter coating on roads and rooftops to reflect more heat away from cities and adding rooftop gardens to increase urban vegetation, which can help lower air temperature through a process known as evapotranspiration.
—The Week, 12 July 2021
Want to find a truck in a field (use machine vision on multispectral data), if new vegetation is growing near a power line (NDVI time series from hyperspectral imagery) or if crops are under-watered (look for a decline in measured evapotranspiration)?
—Rachel Olney, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
In all, Gro computers hoover up 650 trillion data points from more than 40,000 data sets—crop forecasts, satellite images, topography, reports on precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration—to provide insights into 15,000 different agricultural products.
—Eben Shapiro, Time, 21 Feb. 2021
It’s connected to the evapotranspiration of plants.
—Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
evaporation + transpiration
First Known Use
1938, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of evapotranspiration was
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