Sensitivity of the food and agriculture organization Penman-Monteith evapotranspiration estimates to alternative procedures for estimation of parameters

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 238-248

  Nandagiri, Lakshman ^a   Kovoor, Gicy M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Climatic data; Crops; Evapotranspiration; Gas pressure; Parameters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CLIMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; RADIATION PARAMETERS;

CROPS;

CROP PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION;

ALGORITHMS; FARM CROPS; IRRIGATION; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPIRATION; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 20844460344     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9437(2005)131:3(238)     Document Type: Article

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