Using Ventilation-Evapotranspiration-Temperature-Humidity (VETH) chart software for developing a strategy for evaporative cooling of semiarid greenhouses

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 719, Issue , 2006, Pages 483-489

  Kubota, C ^a   Hayashi, M ^b   Fukuda, Y ^b   Yokoi, S ^c   Sase, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

Author keywords

Controlled environment; Energy balance; Mathematical model; Simulation; Water use

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648941893     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2006.719.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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