Quantifying risk for water harvesting under semi-arid conditions: Part II. Crop yield simulation

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 94-107

  Walker, S ^a   Tsubo, M ^a,b   Hensley, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop simulation; In field water harvesting; Maize; Rainfall intensity; Runoff

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; CULTIVATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SOILS;

MAIZE YIELD; RAINFALL-RUNOFF PROCESSES; TILLAGE; WATER HARVESTING (WH);

WATER CONSERVATION;

PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMIARID REGION;

CORN; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SOIL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 20144377830     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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