Micro-catchment water harvesting potential of an arid environment

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-104

  Ali, Akhtar ^a   Yazar, Attila ^b   Abdul Aal, Atef ^c   Oweis, Theib ^d   Hayek, Pierre ^d  

^a ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Philippines)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Plant basins; Runoff micro catchments; Runoff yield; Soil water balance

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; AVERAGE VALUES; CATCHMENT AREA; DEEP PERCOLATION; OVERLAND FLOW; PLANT BASINS; PLANT ROOTS; RAINFALL EVENT; ROOT ZONE; RUNOFF GENERATION; RUNOFF YIELD; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER BALANCE; THREE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER HARVESTING; WATER LOSS; WATER STORAGE; WATER STORAGE CAPACITY;

CATCHMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; HARVESTING; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLVENTS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

RUNOFF;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OVERLAND FLOW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RHIZOSPHERE; RUNOFF; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; THRESHOLD; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 77957896229     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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