Using a subsurface drip irrigation system to measure crop water use

Irrigation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 111-122

  DeTar, W R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; CROPS; EVAPORATION; WATER;

DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET); GROWING DEGREE DAYS (GDD); SLOPE-PROJECTION METHODS;

IRRIGATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; WATER USE;

DRIP IRRIGATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; WATER USE;

COTTON; EVAPORATION; FARM CROPS; IRRIGATION; WATER;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 12444344994     PISSN: 03427188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00271-004-0099-5     Document Type: Article

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