Quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships on the Dera Calcic Fluvic Regosol ecotope in Ethiopia

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1223-1232

  Welderufael, W A ^a   Le Roux, P A L ^a   Hensley, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

In field rainwater harvesting; Maize; Rainfall intensity; Runoff; Semi arid ecotope; Yield increase

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; ARID REGIONS; DROUGHT; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

IN-FIELD RAINWATER HARVESTING; MAIZE; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SEMI-ARID ECOTOPE; YIELD INCREASE;

RUNOFF;

CALIBRATION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HARVESTING; MAIZE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINWATER; SEMIARID REGION; TILLAGE; YIELD RESPONSE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 53849101007     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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