Evaluation of various quick methods for estimating furrow and border infiltration parameters

Irrigation Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 479-488

  Ebrahimian, Hamed ^a   Liaghat, Abdolmajid ^a   Ghanbarian Alavijeh, Behzad ^a   Abbasi, Fariborz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL APPROXIMATION; BORDER IRRIGATION; DATA SETS; INFILTRATION PARAMETERS; POINT APPROACH; SURFACE IRRIGATION; TWO-POINT METHOD; VOLUME BALANCE EQUATIONS;

IRRIGATION; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA SET; FURROW IRRIGATION; INFILTRATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955711789     PISSN: 03427188     EISSN: 14321319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00271-010-0209-5     Document Type: Article

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