Assessment of the FAO AquaCrop model in the simulation of rainfed and supplementally irrigated maize, sugar beet and sunflower

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1615-1621

  Stricevic, Ruzica ^a   Cosic, Marija ^a   Djurovic, Nevenka ^a   Pejic, Borivoj ^b   Maksimovic, Livija ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Horticulture and Landscape Architecture   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUTE OF FIELD AND VEGETABLE CROPS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

AquaCrop; Maize; Model; Simulations; Sugar beet; Sunflower

Indexed keywords

AQUACROP; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CROP COEFFICIENT; CROPPING SEASONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FIELD CROPS; FIELD DATA; HARVEST INDEX; INDEX OF AGREEMENTS; IRRIGATION WATER USE EFFICIENCY; MAIZE; MAIZE YIELD; MEASURED DATA; NATURAL WATERS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; RAINFED; REMAINING YEARS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATIONS; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; SUNFLOWER; WET CONDITIONS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENTS; RATING; SOILS; SUGAR BEETS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

SUGARS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWING SEASON; HERB; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SUGAR BEET; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

SERBIA;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HELIANTHUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960564648     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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