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Soil-Atmosphere Interactions
This lecture covers the interactions between soil and atmosphere, focusing on evaporation processes, transpiration in plants, and evapotranspiration estimation. It discusses the factors influencing evaporation, the stages of soil evaporation, transpiration control mechanisms in plants, and the concept of evapotranspiration. Various formulas and methods for estimating evapotranspiration are presented, including the evapotranspiration of reference and the maximum evapotranspiration. The lecture also addresses the challenges in estimating actual evapotranspiration and the impact of soil and plant conditions on water consumption.