The objectives of this work were to evaluate the influence of the water fetch area and different depths of water in the evaporation pan of the minievaporimeters UFV-1 and UFV-2, over the total water evaporation. To analyze the fetch effect and depths of the water levels of 30, 45, 60 and 75 mm from the minievaporimeters border, the experiment was set up in a factorial 4 x 2 (four levels of water and two types of minievaporimeters) experiment, in the completely randomized design, with three replications. The experimental results with water fetch area reduced the evaporation in the minievaporimeter UFV-2 in about 1,10 mm d-1, on average, in the different water depths studied, comparatively to the minievaporimeter UFV-1. On the other hand, as the water depth increased in the evaporation pan of the two minievaporimeters, the evaporation decreased and approached the value obtained in the Class A pan evaporimeter. As the water depth increased in the minievaporimeters UFV-1 and UFV-2 from 30 to 75 mm, in both minievaporimeters, the evaporation rates reduced from about 5,45 to 4,9 mm d‑1 and from 4,29 to 3,81 mm d-1, respectively.
Evaporimeter; reference evapotranspiration; evaporation pan
