Comparison of Hargreaves and FAO56 equations for estimating monthly evapotranspiration for semi-arid and arid environments

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-334

  Mohawesh, Osama E ^a   Talozi, Samer A ^b  

^a MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

arid and semi arid; evapotranspiration; FAO56 Penman Monteith; Hargreaves equations; limited or missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856916657     PISSN: 03650340     EISSN: 14763567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2010.516253     Document Type: Article

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