Evaporation
Climate Change
The process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
- — ARM Climate Research Glossary retrieved 2014-06-12
the process by which molecules of a liquid become a gas.
Evaporation The physical process by which a liquid or solid substance is transformed to the gaseous state; the opposite of condensation. In meteorology, evaporation usually is restricted in use to the change of water from liquid to gas, while sublimation is used to the change from solid to gas as well as from gas to solid.
Energy
Water
Water vapor losses from water surfaces, sprinkler irrigation, and other related factors. Loss of water to the atmosphere. The process by which water is changed from a liquid into a vapor. Water from land areas, bodies of water, and all other moist surfaces is absorbed into the atmosphere as a vapor.
Process by which liquid water is converted into water vapor.
- — Service Hydrologist Reference Manual Glossary of Hydrologic Terms retrieved 2014-06-01
Weather
The process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas, usually water in meteorology.