crop area from remote sensing and potential evapotranspiration based estimates of irrigation water requirements for cotton … in future evaporation conditions will be of similar nature, water use for irrigation is expected to decrease over 40 … potential evaporation due to increased roughness and decreased humidity deficit in the Harran Plain. Assuming that the changes …

Methods to estimate free-surface evaporation E <Subscript> p </Subscript> and potential evapotranspiration ET … using recorded average historic meteorological data (1980–1997) and compared with the USBR Class-A black pan evaporation … recorded pan evaporation data. The results of the estimated E <Subscript> p </Subscript> values for different months, the …

The FAO-56 soil water evaporation model is a simple ‘slab’ model that has been found to produce good estimates of … evaporation from bare soil over a range of conditions due to its adherence to conservation of mass and energy. The simplicity of … underlying soil is dry. In effect, the evaporation process, when the soil skin is wetted, reverts temporarily into stage 1 …

Evapotranspiration (ETc) fluxes from plastic mulch production systems are different than open field production systems … influenced by rainfall, especially during the initial growth period when it was high. The initial, mid-season, and late season Kc … for plastic mulched raised bed preparation and additional wetting from rainfall that increased evaporative flux. The Kc …

crop (grass) evapotranspiration. However, poor data availability limits the use of this method in many regions. This study … aimed to overcome this limitation (1) by evaluating the goodness-of-fit of selected simple evapotranspiration methods in … temperature or pan evaporation data were available, the calibrated Hargreaves method provided the most accurate results (RE = 0 …

<Superscript> − 1</Superscript>, i.e. 100 Mm<Superscript>3</Superscript> year<Superscript> − 1</Superscript> irrigation requirements … when considering an average irrigation application efficiency of 70%. The simplest and least demanding available … maps of crop evapotranspiration. The application of a spatially distributed simple water balance model, lead to the …

evapotranspiration were studied during a two-year experiment in relation to irrigation treatments in Central Greece. Relative to high …Aiming towards rational irrigation water management in a seasonally dry climate, sorghum water losses via … irrigation (IH), that provided the root depth with 458 mm of water in 1994 and 512 mm in 1995, 56 and 64% of the water was …