10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATMOMETER»
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atmometer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
atmometer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Elementary Engineering Hydrology
In an atmometer, there is a continuous supply of water to a surface. This surface
is kept constantly wet and evaporation from this surface is measured. Atmometers
are not common because of their small size. They do not have sufficient ...
M. J. Deodhar, Deodhar M. J., 2008
2
A Text Book of Hydrology
Livingstone Atmometer. The livingstone atmometer consists of a 5 cm diameter
spherical surface made of 2.5 mm thick porus POROUS SPHERE WATER
PROOF RUBBER- STEM material. It is filled with distilled STOPPER AIR VENT
water ...
3
Irrigation Management: Principles and Practices
Atmometer. cup is covered by a special membrane to stop rainwater entering,
and a rigid wire frame above the cup stops birds perching on the cup.
Atmometers are usually mounted on a wooden post near the irrigated crops, with
the top of the ...
4
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and ...
If the atmometer had its ball perfectly screened from the agitation of wind, its
indications would be proportional to the dryness of the air at the lowered
temperature of the humid surface ; and the quantity of evaporation every hour, as
expressed ...
Pitche evaporimeter or atmometer: Atmometer is another device to measure
evaporation. These atmometers are provided with some special surfaces which
are kept wet and from which water loss by evaporation is recorded. Pitche
atmometer ...
Madan Mohan Das, Mimi Das Saikia, 2009
6
Treatises on Various Subjects of Natural and Chemical Philosophy
nal surface, and this waste is measured by the correspondmg descent of the
water in the stem. , If the atmometer had its ball perfectly screened from the
agitation of wind, its indications would be proportional to the dryness of the air at
the ...
Sir John Leslie, Macvey Napier, 1838
7
Evapotranspiration and water[shed] research as related to ...
Muelder, Dietrich W., Tappeiner, John C., and Hansen, Jack H. 596 1963.
Measurement of potential evaporation rates in ecology and silviculture with
particular reference to the Piche atmometer. J. Forest. 61: 840-845. Knowledge of
the drying ...
8
Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in ...
In its first incarnation the porous-cup atmometer was strictly a laboratory device
and not field worthy, but its promise was evident, and it evolved rapidly, thanks
mainly to the efforts of Livingston and the ecologist Edgar Transeau. By 1910 or
so ...
9
Discovering the Desert: Legacy of the Carnegie Desert ...
Because there were no adequate methods of measuring the power of aerial
surroundings to extract water from the plant at that time, he developed a porous
porcelain atmometer to measure evaporation for local comparison with
transpiration ...
William Grovenor McGinnies, 1981
10
Evapotranspiration and Water Research as Related to Riparian ...
Muelder, Dietrich W., Tappeiner, John C, and Hansen, Jack H. 596 1963.
Measurement of potential evaporation rates in ecology and silviculture with
particular reference to the Piche atmometer. J. Forest. 61: 840-845. Knowledge of
the drying ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATMOMETER»
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atmometer is used in the context of the following news items.
A sporting rationalist
... a thermometer, a barometer, an oethrioscope, a photometer, an electroscope, a hygrometer, an ombrometer (rain gauge) and an atmometer. «The Hindu, Jun 13»
