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Observations of Potential Evapo-Transpiration

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THE Nature Conservancy started at the end of 1955 to measure potential evapo-transpiration using the methods devised by C. W. Thornthwaite and his associates1. These studies are continuing; but since the first year's results for Achnagoichan in Rothie-murchus, within the Cairngorms Nature Reserve, are of special topical interest, it is worth referring to them briefly at this stage.

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  1. Mather, J. R. (edit.), Pub. in Climatol., The Johns Hopkins University Laboratory of Climatology. Seabrook, New Jersey, U.S.A., 5, VII, No. 1 (1954).

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GREEN, F. Observations of Potential Evapo-Transpiration. Nature 178, 104 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178104a0

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