Assessment of evapotranspiration based on data information models at production sites in Burkina Faso

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 880-887

  Wang, Yu Min ^a   Traore, Seydou ^a   Kerh, Tienfuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Estimation model; Evapotranspiration; Irrigation design; Mean equation; Scheduling; Wind factor

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RURAL AREAS; SCHEDULING;

BLANEY-CRIDDLE MODEL; HARGREAVES MODELS; PENMAN-MONTEITH MODEL;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EID: 34347374545     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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