Regional assessment of evaporation from agricultural irrigation reservoirs in a semiarid climate

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1056-1066

  Martinez Alvarez V ^a   Gonzalez Real M M ^a   Baille, A ^a   Maestre Valero, J F ^a   Gallego Elvira, B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Class A pan; Pan coefficient; Storage efficiency; Water loss; Water management

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; IRRIGATION; MOISTURE; VAPORS;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; AGRICULTURAL WATER; CLASS-A PAN; EVAPORATION LOSS; PAN COEFFICIENT; REGIONAL SCALES; RIVER BASINS; SEMI-ARID CLIMATES; STORAGE EFFICIENCY; WATER LOSS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EVAPORATION; IRRIGATION; RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; SEMIARID REGION; WATER STORAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SEGURA BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 49549114869     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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