ESCI 407/507: Forest Ecology

Spring 2008

 

 Last updated: 4/29/08):

 Water Balance Using the Penman-Monteith Equation

Today’s lab exercise is intended to give you an opportunity to see how vegetation cover influences evapotranspiration.  We will be using a modified version of the Penman-Monteith equation that we discussed in lecture.  The spreadsheet that we will be using was developed by Dr. Robert Mitchell in the Geology Department here at WWU.  Dr. Mitchell developed this spreadsheet for use in his hydrology class (Geol 472).  There is no lab writeup for today’s lab.

Get a copy of the Excel spreadsheet

pen_mon2006.xls

 I will walk you through the use of this spreadsheet in lab and we will do a few simple manipulations with it.



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