• Potential evapotranspiration (PET) or potential evaporation (PE) is the amount of water that would be evaporated and transpired by a specific crop, soil...
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    Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation)...
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    precipitation less than a threshold value that approximates the potential evapotranspiration.: 212  The threshold value (in millimeters) is calculated as...
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  • calculated from the Climatic Research Unit precipitation and potential evapotranspiration datasets. The GPCC drought index provides SPEI datasets at a...
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    precipitation each year. The potential evapotranspiration may be large but (in the absence of available water) the actual evapotranspiration may be close to zero...
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    In addition to the precipitation level, its combination with potential evapotranspiration defines a steppe climate. Steppe can be classified by climate:...
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    (annual, logarithmic) biotemperature (mean annual, logarithmic) potential evapotranspiration ratio (PET) to mean total annual precipitation. Further indicators...
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  • complex, Thornthwaite switched vegetation with the concept of potential evapotranspiration (PET), which represents both precipitation effectiveness and...
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  • precipitation and potential evapotranspiration for those months when the normal precipitation is less than the normal evapotranspiration; and where n {\displaystyle...
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    vapor pressure of water in the chilly atmosphere, but as a rule potential evapotranspiration is extremely low, allowing soggy terrain of swamps and bogs even...
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    Australia, the Sahel and Guajira Peninsula can be, due to extreme potential evapotranspiration, classed as arid with the annual rainfall as high as 430 millimetres...
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    vapor pressure of water in the chilly atmosphere, but as a rule potential evapotranspiration is extremely low, allowing soggy terrain of swamps and bogs even...
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    a positive water balance (i.e. the precipitation exceeds the potential evapotranspiration). Hanoi averages 1,612 millimetres (63.5 in) of rainfall per...
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    sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds...
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    periods. Climate change increases potential evapotranspiration. This can cause vegetation and soils to dry out when potential evaporation exceeds precipitation...
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    millimetres or 16 inches of rain, owing to the extremely high potential evapotranspiration. Temperatures are coolest in December and January and are hottest...
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  • Specifically the Penman–Monteith equation refines weather based potential evapotranspiration (PET) estimates of vegetated land areas. It is widely regarded...
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    evapotranspiration—create a microclimate favorable to crops; "measurements taken in different oases have showed that the potential evapotranspiration...
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    a positive water balance (i.e. the precipitation exceeds the potential evapotranspiration). The average annual amount of sunshine hours is 1,400 to 1,700...
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    The ETPQ (Daily Potential Evapotranspiration) model was built to meet the need for real-time monitoring of potential evapotranspiration over the whole...
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  • theorem, a mathematical theorem in enumerative combinatorics Potential evapotranspiration, a measure of the atmospheric demand for water vapour from evaporation...
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    due to the extreme and persistent heat and consequent extreme potential evapotranspiration. Every month averages over 32.2 °C or 90 °F maximum temperature...
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    climates are humid (or even perhumid or superhumid) when the potential evapotranspiration (PET) ratio (= PET / Precipitation) is less than 1. In the Holdridge...
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  • estimating reference crop evapotranspiration. The Blaney–Criddle equation is a relatively simplistic method for calculating evapotranspiration. When sufficient...
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  • {\displaystyle PET=K_{c}*RET} Potential evapotranspiration (PET), is the evaporation and transpiration that potentially could occur if a field of the...
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    rates across ecosystems. VPD is also a strong influencer of potential evapotranspiration, which has important effects in the warming climate. As the vapor...
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    rain that the city receives annually is due to the area's high potential evapotranspiration very close to being classified as a hot semi-arid climate (BSh)...
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  • (logarithmic) annual precipitation (logarithmic) ratio of annual potential evapotranspiration to mean total annual precipitation. Biotemperature refers to...
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    Hawaiian Islands is supported by its average solar radiation and potential evapotranspiration being the lowest amongst recorded locations in the state, and...
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    millimetres of rain per year, owing to the exceedingly high potential evapotranspiration. Two trans-African automobile routes pass through Wad Medani:...
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