Howard L. Penman
Howard Latimer Penman OBE ( April 10, 1909 - October 15, 1984 ) was a British physicist .
Howard L. Penman worked in 1948 at Rothamsted Experimental Station , England and published his work on evaporation under the title "Natural evaporation from open water, bare soil and grass". In it he pointed out the importance of differences in vapor pressure between the surface and the ambient air and presented his now widely used approximation formula, the Penman formula. John Monteith worked with him, and his results flow into the Penman-Monteith formula, the FAO-56 method, for calculating evapotranspiration . In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Web links
- Entry to Penman; Howard Latimer (1909-1984) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- A Half Century of Agricultural Meteorology , William E. Reifsnyder, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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| SURNAME | Penman, Howard L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Penman, Howard Latimer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1909 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1984 |