Definition: Evaporation and actual evapotranspiration

Category: System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

Volume of water that enters the atmosphere by vaporization of water into gas through evaporation from land and water surfaces, and transpiration from plants in the territory of reference during the accounting period excluding amounts already recorded as abstracted from soil water. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-01-14-120&mode=view
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United Nations; European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); International Monetary Fund (IMF); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); The World Bank, "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Central Framework", New York, 2014
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