Laboratory measurements of PAR transmittance of wet and dry greenhouse cladding materials

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-152

  Pollet, I V ^a   Pieters, J G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Condensation; Greenhouse climate; Photosynthetically active radiation; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033593819     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(98)00124-5     Document Type: Article

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