Evapotranspiration in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System

Viliam Novák graduated at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia (1964). He is a Water Resources specialist, with a PhD degree from the Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Department of Hydrodynamics of Porous Media (1973). Rising from Technical Assistant to Principal Scientific Officer in 1992, he was engaged in the study of transport processes in the Soil–Plant–Atmosphere System (SPAS), especially in evapotranspiration process and methods of calculation. Another field of interest is extraction of soil water by roots and mathematical modelling of the water transport in the Soil–Plant–Atmosphere System. Dr. Novák is now working at the Department of Soil Hydrology (part of the Institute of Hydrology), of  the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovak Republic).

• Evapotranspiration – component of water cycle.--Evaporation process and its basic properties.--Evaporation and kinetic theory of fluids.--Water balance and water cycle.--Energy balance of the evaporation area.-Soil–plant–atmosphere system.--Water.--Soil and other parts of Earth surface.--Basic soil properties.--Canopy.--Atmosphere.-Evaporation from different surfaces.--Evaporation of intercepted water.--Evaporation from free water surface.--Evaporation from snow and ice.--Evaporation from urban territories.--Transpiration.--Potential evapotranspiration.-Transport of water and energy in the boundary layer of atmosphere.--Meteorological characteristics of the boundary layer of atmosphere vertical distribution.--Coefficients of heat and water vapour transport in the SPAC system.-Movement of water in soil during evaporation.--Bare soil evaporation.--Soil water content profiles during bare soil evaporation.--Transport of water and heat in an unsaturated porous media.--Soil water transport quantification in isothermal conditions.--System of equations describing the transport of heat and water in porous media.-Movement of water in the soil root zone during transpiration.--Water in a soil root zone.--Roots system.--Field measurements.--Methods of soil water uptake patterns calculation.--Mesoscopic approach to water uptake by plant roots.-The role of plants in transport processes in the Soil – Plant – Atmosphere system.--Transport of water from soil through plant to the atmosphere and its quantification.--Transpiration control by stomata.--Canopy and stomata conductivity during transpiration.-Evapotranspiration and soil water.--Evapotranspiration and soil water content.--Evapotranspiration and soil–water potential.--Transpiration and uptake of water by roots during combined water and salinity stress.-Methods of evapotranspiration estimation.--Evapotranspiration measurement.--Methods of evapotranspiration calculation.--Micrometeorological methods of evapotranspiration estimation.--Measurement and evaluation of sap flow data in trees and stands to evaluate transpiration rate.-Evapotranspiration components structure.--Potential evapotranspiration components structure.--Components of evapotranspiration: Daily and seasonal courses.-Combination method of daily evapotranspiration calculation.--Distribution of land according to the type of evaporating surface.--Net radiation of evaporating surfaces.--Potential evapotranspiration of homogeneous surfaces.--Potential evapotranspiration components.-Actual evapotranspiration calculation.-Estimation of regional evapotranspiration using remote sensing data.--Energy balance method.--Regional evapotranspiration estimation using complementary relationship.