Regional analysis and calibration for the South of Portugal of a simple evapotranspiration model for use in an autonomous landscape irrigation controller

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 513-523

  Teixeira, José ^a   Shahidian, Shakib ^a   Rolim, João ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Hargreaves; Hargreaves Samani; Jensen Haise; Landscape irrigation; Makkink; Priestley Taylor; Turc; Water management

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION; SENSOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51149098541     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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