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Laboratory Comparison of Evaporation Rate Between Colorado Sanken Evaporation Pan and Class A Evaporation Pan (Case Study: Semnan, Iran)
Hamidreza Ghazvinian, Hojat Karami, Changhyun Jun, Oceana Francis, Sayed M. Bateni, Yashar Dadrasajirlou, Shahab S. Band

Paper Summary

The researchers compared two types of evaporation pans in Semnan, Iran to see how fast water evaporates from each. They found that the evaporation rates from both pans were pretty similar. They used different statistical methods to analyze the data and found that the pans had a strong correlation. The air temperature had the biggest impact on how fast the water evaporated.

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