The nocturnal heat loss and internal temperatures in plastic tunnel greenhouses with thermal screens

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 443, Issue , 1997, Pages 79-84

  Huseyin Ozturk H ^a   Basçetinçelik, Ali ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Heat loss; Plastic tunnel; Thermal screen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879241212     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1997.443.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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