A simple scheme for modeling irrigation water requirements at the regional scale applied to an Alpine river catchment

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 869-886

  Smith, Pascalle C ^a   Calanca, Pierluigi ^a   Fuhrer, Jürg ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate; Irrigation; Statistical modeling; Swiss Rhone catchment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS; IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENTS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOIL WATER HOLDINGS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODELING;

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; IRRIGATION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER DEMAND; WATER USE;

FRANCE; RHONE; RHONE-ALPES;

EID: 84878697905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w4040869     Document Type: Article

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