Lysimeter is used in the measurement of

✅ Explanation: A lysimeter is a device used to measure the amount of water that evaporates from the soil and transpires from plants (evapotranspiration). It typically consists of a container filled with soil and vegetation, with a system to collect and measure the water that drains through the bottom.

🔑Key Points :
-Infiltration: It is the flow of water through the soil surface into a porous medium under gravitational action and pressure effects. The factors influence the infiltration are the soil type such as texture, structure, hydrodynamic characteristics which influence capillary forces and adsorption and the soil coverage.
-Evaporation: It is the process in which a liquid change to the gaseous state at the free surface below the boiling point through the transfer of heat energy.
-Vapour pressure: Vapour pressure is defined as the pressure exerted by a vapor in thermodynamic equilibrium with its condensed phases (solid or liquid) at a given temperature in a closed system.
-Evapotranspiration: It is the process by which water leaves the body of a living plant and reaches atmosphere as water vapour.
-A Lysimeter is a measuring device which can be used to measure the amount of actual evapotranspiration which is released by plants (usually crops or trees). By recording the amount of precipitation that an area receives and the amount lost through the soil, the amount of water lost to evapotranspiration can be calculated. Lysimeters are of two types: weighing and non-weighing.