A new method is developed to estimate the evaporation of water from a surface with high accuracy and resolution. The principle of new method is to detect a weight change of buoyant weight according to a change in water level of Class A Pan measured by the use of a strain-gauge load cell. Field test of evaporation recording new instrument was carried out at Suwon for 10 days of July 1999. It is possible in field observation to measure hourly evaporation amount by newly developed evaporation recording instrument in Class A Pan against strong solar radiation. Present study provide a possibility of domestic high accuracy instrument development below than 0.1mm water level measurement accuracy. If there is low humidity and high wind speed conditions which is possible to evaporate from water surface during night time. And it needs continuos study to understand between meteorological elements and latent heat effect at ground level by field observation study using high accuracy evaporation recording instrument.

• 이부용(대구가톨릭대학교 환경과학과) | Bu Yong Lee Corresponding Author