Water balance variability across Sri Lanka for assessing agricultural and environmental water use

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-192

  Bastiaanssen, W G M ^a,c   Chandrapala, L ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b Bauddhaloka Mawatha   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environment; Remote sensing; Sri Lanka; Water availability; Water use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROLOGY; RAIN;

WATER BALANCE;

WATER;

EVAPORATION; IRRIGATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER BUDGET; WATER USE;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTS; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; WATER;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0037433266     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(02)00128-2     Document Type: Article

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