Regional-Specific Numerical Models of Evapotranspiration Using Gene-Expression Programming Interface in Sahel

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 4367-4380

  Traore, Seydou ^a,b   Guven, Aytac ^c  

^a United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)   (Ethiopia)

^b Ministry of Research and Scientifc Innovation INERA/GRN SP   (Burkina Faso)

^c GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration modeling; Gene expression programming; Irrigation planning; Sahel specific data

Indexed keywords

BURKINA FASO; CLIMATIC DATA; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; COMPUTING TECHNIQUES; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; IRRIGATION PLANNING; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODELING TOOL; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL LEVELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAHEL-SPECIFIC DATA; SAHELIAN REGIONS; WIND VELOCITIES;

ERGONOMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NUMERICAL MODELS; WATER SUPPLY;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOFTWARE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

BURKINA FASO; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84868206179     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0149-3     Document Type: Article

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