Evaluation of evapotranspiration coefficient and daily crop reference evapotranspiration in a semi-arid region based on field water balance and FAO method

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1850-1856

  Mirzaei, Majid ^a   Sohrabi, Teymour ^b   Jahanbania, Heerbod ^a   Faghih, Mina ^b   Shui, Lee Teang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crop coefficients; FAO method; Field water balance; Sugar beet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856417392     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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