ABSTRACT
Soil water evaporation is an important component of surface energy balance. The rate and quantity of evaporation from a soil surface is a complicated process affected by many soil characteristics, tillage, and environmental interactions. Evaporation also affects plant available water content of soil and causes salinization in irrigated lands. It is known that energy and water availability largely dominate the process of evaporation, thus on an average these broad principles can be used to estimate direct soil water evaporation.
