Estimation of the evaporation from meteorological data; meteorological station; wind direction; wind speed; solar radiation; temperature; relative humidity; precipitation; variation of vapour pressure, relative humidity, and air temperature during a day; earth's surface energy balance; atmospheric demand for water vapour; net radiation at the earth's surface; saturation deficit; aerodynamic resistance; surface resistance; albedo (reflection coefficient); incoming shortwave radiation; outgoing longwave radiation; soil heat transfer; sensible heat (transfer); latent heat (transfer); interactive spreadsheet on the Online Resource Centre (Companion website) comparing the evaporation from a forest, grassland, and open water; FAO Penman-Monteith equation as the sole standard method for computation of the reference crop evaporation; crop coefficient; lysimeter
