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SOIL EVAPORATION [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
CONT

Soil evaporation is a direct pathway for water to move from soil to the atmosphere as water vapor.

OBS

Evaporation can remove more water from the soil than can growing plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
CONT

[L]'évaporation du sol conduit à une augmentation de la teneur en isotopes stables de l'eau dans le sol.

OBS

Sur les sols argileux, les cumuls d'évaporation et de transpiration sont sensiblement égaux. Par contre, sur les sols sableux, les cumuls sont grandement différents : l'évaporation est deux fois plus grande [...] et la transpiration est deux fois plus faible [...]

Spanish

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