Soil water management implications during the constant rate and the falling rate stages of soil evaporation

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 87-97

  Bonsu, Mensah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Desorptivity; Evaporation

Indexed keywords

DESORPTIVITY; EVAPORATION; SOIL WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GHANA;

EID: 0030836422     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(96)01296-6     Document Type: Article

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