EVAPOTRANSPIRATION

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AN OVERVIEW
Edited by Stavros G. Alexandris
and Ruzica Stricevic
Evapotranspiration - An Overview
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3383
Edited by Stavros G. Alexandris and Ruzica Stricevic
Contributors
Robert Criss, Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Amin Elshorbagy, Zohreh Izadifar, Nakayama, Baburao Kamble, Ayse Irmak, Ian
Ratcliffe, Gary Hergert, Derrel Martin, Kenneth Hubbard, Sunil Narumalani, Robert Oglesby, Nebo Jovanovic, José
Carlos Mendonça, Jozsef Szilagyi, Zoubeida Kebaili Bargaoui, Koutsoyiannis, Aristoteles Tegos, Andreas Efstratiadis,
Renata Duffková, Hanbo Yang, Ahmed Al-Busaidi, Mir Matin, Charles Bourque
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Contents
Preface VII
Chapter 1
Water Balance Estimates of Evapotranspiration Rates in Areas
with Varying Land Use 1
Elizabeth A. Hasenmueller and Robert E. Criss
Chapter 2
Recent Updates of the Calibration-Free Evapotranspiration
Mapping (CREMAP) Method 23
Jozsef Szilagyi
Chapter 3
Quantifying the Evapotranspiration Component of the Water
Balance of Atlantis Sand Plain Fynbos (South Africa) 39
Nebo Jovanovic, Richard Bugan and Sumaya Israel
Chapter 4
Seasonal and Regional Variability of the Complementary
Relationship Between Actual and Potential Evaporations in the
Asian Monsoon Region 61
Hanbo Yang and Dawen Yang
Chapter 5
Satellite-Based Energy Balance Approach to Assess Riparian
Water Use 79
Baburao Kamble, Ayse Irmak, Derrel L. Martin, Kenneth G. Hubbard,
Ian Ratcliffe, Gary Hergert, Sunil Narumalani and Robert J. Oglesby
Chapter 6
Influence of Vegetation Cover on Regional Evapotranspiration
in Semi-Arid Watersheds in Northwest China 97
Mir A. Matin and Charles P.-A. Bourque
Chapter 7
Effect of Evapotranspiration on Hydrothermal Changes in
Regional Scale 127
Tadanobu Nakayama
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