UniversityOfNewOrleans

Evapotranspiration

This "Evapotranspiration" course was developed by HydroLearn fellows Josephine A Archibald of Humboldt State University, Hugo A. Gutierrez of University of Texas at El Paso, and Shangping Xu of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I have adopted the first two sections for use in the University of New Orleans ENCE 4329 Introduction to Hydrology. All references to the course should be cited as follows: Archibald, J., Gutierrez, H., Xu, S. (2020) Evapotranspiration. HydroLearn. https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:HumboldtState+ENGR440+2020_Fall/about. In this module, you will gain an understanding of the role evapotranspiration (ET) plays in the hydrologic cycle and practical experience in calculating ET fluxes at different temporal and spatial scales for solving an array of water balance problems. You will learn how to estimate ET, including the water balance method, temperature and radiation-based methods, the use of an evaporation pan, and the Penman-Monteith equation. The learning activities in this module incorporate data from NOAA for Lake Michigan/Huron, FluxNet datasets from the AmeriFlux network, as well as Landsat and Sentinel satellite datasets used for performing hydrologic investigations where knowledge of ET is needed.