Analyses of Crop Coefficients and Water Balance in an Irrigated Cornfield in the Upper Yellow River Basin

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 115-124

  Yasutake, Daisuke ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuo ^b   Kitano, Masaharu ^b   Ikegami, Daichi ^b   Iwanaga, Risa ^c   Wang, Weizhen ^d   He, Wenjun ^e  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Forestry and Fisheries   (Japan)

^d Cold and Arid Regions Environmental Engineering Institute ^*  (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Crop coefficient; Crop transpiration; Irrigated cornfield; Soil evaporation; Water balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 43749090827     PISSN: 00218588     EISSN: 18810136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.63.115     Document Type: Article

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