Validation of the FAO methodology for computing ETo with limited data. Application to south Bulgaria

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-215

  Popova, Zornitsa ^a   Kercheva, Milena ^a   Pereira, Luis S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

FAO Penman Monteith equation; Hargreaves equation; Reference evapotranspiration; Solar radiation estimation; Temperature difference equations; Trace plain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646262307     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.228     Document Type: Article

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