How to Use evapotranspiration in a Sentence

evapotranspiration

noun

• The researchers found the lush mesic plot to be the coolest, thanks to the evapotranspiration of all of its water-demanding plants.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• Scientists have linked the use of fertilizers to an increase in evapotranspiration, the process by which water moves from the ground to the air.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• The technical term for release of moisture from both the soil and the crops themselves is evapotranspiration.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 22 July 2019
• Their roots also suck water from the ground and eventually release it to the air in a process called evapotranspiration.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2020
• Land is greening up earlier and causing an earlier loss of water from the land surface through evapotranspiration – the loss of water from plants and soil.
  — Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• From space, the instrument can measure a range of aspects on a landscape, such as the temperature of different plants and the amount of evapotranspiration taking place in a forest.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
• Deforestation lessens the amount of moisture that can cycle from trees into the atmosphere through a process called evapotranspiration.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2022
• Trees in particular offer lots of shade and, through a process called evapotranspiration, use energy from the sun to evaporate water within their leaves.
  — The Economist, 21 July 2019
• This evapotranspiration also cools the forest—it’s sweating, basically—so without it the Amazon not only dries out, but heats up.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• Trees promote cooling by providing shade to streets and buildings and through a process called evapotranspiration, which disperses moisture in the atmosphere.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2017
• Saher said this landscape requires light drip irrigation and contributes to cooling through the evapotranspiration of the plants.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• When there is no moisture in the soil or in plants, there is no evaporation or evapotranspiration, both of which are cooling processes that add moisture into the air and stabilize the air temperature.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 8 June 2022
• Similar to how a person breathes, plants exhale water into the atmosphere through a process called evapotranspiration (otherwise known as corn sweat).
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
• Such warmth has dramatic repercussions on the landscape, primarily through evapotranspiration, the process by which plants and soils release moisture into the atmosphere.
  — Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2020
• Trees provide shade and are especially cool due to evapotranspiration (when water is transferred from the trees into the atmosphere, dispelling heat), creating a cooler environment around them.
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019
• Research suggests that the phenomenon is broadly the result of less evapotranspiration—that’s when water evaporates from plants or soil into the atmosphere, cooling the air—in cities, compared with their surrounding environments.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2019
• Flash droughts accelerate evapotranspiration—soil and plants giving up excessive moisture—which can ruin crops.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2022
• Climate change is also contributing to worsening aridification and evapotranspiration, or the processes by which the state’s atmosphere is becoming thirstier and sapping more moisture from plants and soil.
  — Hayley Smithstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Trees and vegetation lower surface and air temperatures by providing shade and through evapotranspiration.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Warmer temperatures dry out soil faster, a phenomenon called evapotranspiration.
  — John F. Ross, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• Current standards for measuring water stress fall primarily into evapotranspiration models and soil moisture sensing.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2017
• For example, the most advanced irrigation systems receive signals from local weather stations calculating evapotranspiration (the amount of water lost to the atmosphere) by monitoring temperature, solar radiation, humidity and wind velocity.
  — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024