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SOIL-PLANT-WATER RELATIONSHIP AND WATER REQUIREMENT

Meyer’s Formula (1915)

C = 15 + 0.93W For a plate and a shallow pool

C = 11+ 0.68W for small lakes and dams (reservoir)

Rohwer (1931)

C variable value

C= (0.44 + 0.073W)(1.465 - 0.00073P)

By Analytical Methods

Analytical Methods of Evaporation Estimation

The analytical methods for the determination of Lake evaporation
can bebroadly classified into three categories as :

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