Simple model to estimate field-measured soil water limits

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1609-1614

  Ritchie, J T ^a   Gerakis, A ^a   Suleiman, A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Plant extractable water; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLAY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAND; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES;

LINEAR REGRESSION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; PLANT EXTRACTABLE WATER; SOIL WATER LIMITS; WATER BALANCE;

WATER;

MODELING; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0033232599     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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