Water Budget Calculator Created for Residential Urban Landscapes in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 525-533

  Al Kofahi, Salman D ^a   VanLeeuwen, Dawn M ^a   Samani, Zohrab A ^b   St Hilaire, Rolston ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface; Landscaping; New Mexico; Water management

Indexed keywords

ALBUQUERQUE , NEW MEXICO; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE REGIONS; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; LANDSCAPING; NEW MEXICO; PLANNING TOOLS; PLANT SPECIES; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGION MATCH; SITE-SPECIFICITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TURF-GRASSES; URBAN LANDSCAPE; VEGETATION COMPONENTS; WATER BUDGET; WEATHER ANOMALIES; WEB INTERFACE; ZIP CODE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN PLANNING; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

ALBUQUERQUE; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861852062     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000439     Document Type: Article

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