“…(1) water budget (U.S. G.S., 1954;Hunt, 1959;Morton, 1967;Myrup et al, 1979), (2) measurement, like evaporation pans (Kohler, 1954;Webb, 1966;Vardavas, 1987;Fu et al, 2004) and eddy correlation technique (Ikebuchi et al, 1988;Sene et al, 1991;Stannard and Rosenberry, 1991;Assouline and Mahrer, 1993), (3) energy budget (U.S. G.S., 1954, 1958Bolsenga, 1975;Sturrock et al, 1992;Sacks et al, 1994;dos Reis and Dias, 1998;Winter et al, 2003;Lenters et al, 2005), (4) mass transfer (U.S. G.S., 1954, 1958Sweers, 1976;Quinn, 1979;Yu and Knapp, 1985;Hostetler and Bartlein, 1990;Stauffer, 1991;Singh and Xu, 1997) and (5) combination methods (Penman, 1948;Priestley and Taylor, 1972;De Bruin, 1978;Vardavas and Fountoulakis, 1996;Finch, 2001).…”