Simulating maize yields when irrigating with saline water, using the AquaCrop, SALTMED, and SWAP models

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 91-99

  Hassanli, Mohammad ^a   Ebrahimian, Hamed ^a   Mohammadi, Ehsan ^b   Rahimi, Amirreza ^a   Shokouhi, Amirhossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cyclic use; Drip irrigation; Evaluation; Soil salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969799578     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: 18732283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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