The Computation Of The Water Balance And The Modelling Of The Irrigation Schedule Of A Cotton Crop With The Model SWBACROS
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Free (open access)
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Volume
18
Pages
10
Published
1996
Size
872 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/HY960191
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
C. Babajimopoulos, A. Panoras, I. Mavroudis & G. Ellas
Abstract
The mathematical model SWBACROS (Simulation of the Water Balance of a CROpped Soil) is used to compute the water balance and to model the irrigation schedule of a cotton crop in the area of Thessaloniki, Greece. The model is based on the numerical solution of the partial dif- ferential equation which describes the unsaturated transient water flow in a cultivated heterogeneous soil. The equation is solved by the Douglas- Jones predictor-corrector method. The required data were collected dur- ing the growing season of 1994. These data include rainfall and/or irri- gation data, the characteristic curve of each soil horizon, l
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