Sentences with phrase «called evapotranspiration»

Another way of lowering your home's outdoor thermostat is a natural process called evapotranspiration, a combination of evaporation and transpiration from plants.

In warm, dry regions, irrigation increases the amount of water available for plants to release into the air through a process called evapotranspiration.

Here it can be used by plants or evaporate directly, with water loss from both processes combined called evapotranspiration.

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In this case, the additional force that pulls the water column up the vessels or tracheids is evapotranspiration, the loss of water from the leaves through openings called stomata and subsequent evaporation of that water.

Researchers used two methods to track groundwater levels, traditional water balance estimates — which take into account surface water inflow like rainfall and snow melt, soil moisture capacity and evapotranspiration — and data from NASA's twin satellite system called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).

Early evidence suggests that globally, the rate of water loss from soil and plants (called «evapotranspiration») has declined, a finding reinforced by a global slowdown in plant growth.