Report of Committee on Transpiration and Evaporation, 1940–41

Abstract

The membership of the Committee includes the following: T. C. Adams; N. W. Cunnings; W. E. Davis; S. T. Harding; A. H. Hendrickson; I. E. Houk; E. W. Lane; C. H. Lee; C. G. Rossby; T. Saville; C. A. Taylor; C. W. Thornthwaite; H. C. Troxell; H. G. Wilm; and J. Kittredge (Chairman). Several reports of developments have become available during the year. Evaporation from snow near Fraser, Colorado, according to the first season's records by the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, amounted to 3.5 inches of water, of which almost 80 per cent was lost during April and May. Interception of 30 per cent of the summer's precipitation by a lodgepole‐pine forest is reported in a separate paper.