Heat and mass transfer in a large evaporative cooled greenhouse equipped with a progressive shading

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 691, Issue , 2005, Pages 625-632

  Bartzanas, Th ^a   Kittas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crop transpiration; Evaporative cooling; Shading; Temperature gradients

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947617552     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2005.691.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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