potential evapotranspiration

Generally, the amount of moisture which, if available, would be removed from a given land area by evapotranspiration; expressed in units of water depth.

Related terms:

• Evapotranspiration
• tidal potential
• global warming potential
• Spontaneous Potential Logs
• potential instability
• potential evaporation
• potential index of refraction
• potential refractive index
• weathering-potential index
• equivalent potential temperature