Weighing lysimeters for the determination of crop water requirements and crop coefficients

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 851-856

  Marek, Thomas H ^a   Piccinni, Giovanni ^a   Schneider, Arland D ^b   Howell, Terry A ^b   Jett, Michael ^a   Dusek, Donald A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop coefficients; Crop water measurement; ET measurement; Lysimeter construction; Weighing lysimeters

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LYSIMETERS; WEIGHING;

CROP COEFFICIENTS; CROP WATER MEASUREMENT; WEIGHING LYSIMETERS;

CROPS;

EID: 33846469323     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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