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Overview
Evaporation data is essential for water supply assessment and water management in Alberta. Morton’s Evaporation Tool uses quality assured climate data to calculate evaporation rates for townships throughout Alberta.
The tool supports consistent, provincewide evaporation calculations and is an accepted method for estimating evaporation and evapotranspiration rates in Alberta.
How the tool works
Morton’s Evaporation Tool calculates evaporation and evapotranspiration rates using publicly available, quality assured data from the Alberta Climate Information Service.
The tool:
- uses Alberta Climate Information Service gridded township climate data
- provides provincewide coverage for all Alberta townships
- supports daily, weekly and monthly evaporation calculations
- allows users to export calculated data for further analysis
Morton’s Evaporation Tool is one of Environment and Protected Areas’ accepted methods for computing evaporation rates in Alberta.
It can be used by practitioners to support:
- water supply assessments
- water management planning
- technical analysis that requires consistent evaporation or evapotranspiration estimates
Get Morton’s Evaporation Tool
Get the Morton’s Evaporation Tool to calculate evaporation and evapotranspiration rates.
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