Use of crop-specific drought indices for determining irrigation demand in the Texas high plains

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 905-916

  Moorhead, J E ^a   Gowda, P H ^a   Marek, T H ^b   Porter, D O ^b   Howell, T A ^a   Singh, V P ^c   Stewart, B A ^d  

^a USDA ARS CPRL ^*  (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Texas A M University   (United States)

^d WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Evapotranspiration; Irrigation management; Semiarid region

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CLIMATE; CROP-SPECIFIC DROUGHT INDICES; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION GRADIENTS; SEMI-ARID REGION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP;

ARID REGIONS; CROPS; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

IRRIGATION;

EID: 84893076997     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13031/aea.29.10201     Document Type: Article

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