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Article: Effect of watertable depth on evaporation and salt accumulation from saline groundwater.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Soil Research
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
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Introduction
Evapotranspiration is a convenient, if clumsy, term that has been widely adopted by agrohydrologists and soil scientists to describe total evaporative flux from a land surface, but efforts to improve water productivity must begin with recognition of the different components of evapotranspiration. Savenije (2004) emphasises the importance of distinguishing between interception and transpiration. Rockstrom et al. (2003) examine the partitioning of rainfall and identify the gap in knowledge of the relative importance of non-beneficial soil evaporation. In this paper, our focus is on better understanding of evaporation from bare soil, which, under ...