Co** with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues

PS Minhas, TB Ramos, A Ben-Gal… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil and water salinity and associated problems are a major challenge for global food
production. Strategies to cope with salinity include a better understanding of the impacts of …

Soil water balance models for determining crop water and irrigation requirements and irrigation scheduling focusing on the FAO56 method and the dual Kc approach

LS Pereira, P Paredes, N Jovanovic - Agricultural water management, 2020 - Elsevier
This study reviews soil water balance (SWB) model approaches to determine crop irrigation
requirements and scheduling irrigation adopting the FAO56 method. The K c-ET o approach …

Crop evapotranspiration estimation with FAO56: Past and future

LS Pereira, RG Allen, M Smith, D Raes - Agricultural water management, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper No 56 on Crop Evapotranspiration has
been in publication for more than 15 years. The paper advanced the accuracy and …

Standard single and basal crop coefficients for field crops. Updates and advances to the FAO56 crop water requirements method

LS Pereira, P Paredes, DJ Hunsaker… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reviews the abundant research on FAO56 crop coefficients, published following
introduction of the FAO56 paper in 1998. The primary goal was to evaluate, update, and …

Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height. Background and validation using ground and remote sensing data

LS Pereira, P Paredes, F Melton, L Johnson… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
The current study aims at reviewing and providing advances on methods for estimating and
applying crop coefficients from observations of ground cover and vegetation height. The …

Water, agriculture and food: challenges and issues

LS Pereira - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
Population growth, increasing demands for food, ever-growing competition for water,
reduced supply reliability, climate change and climate uncertainty and droughts, decline in …

Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern **njiang

S Ning, B Zhou, J Shi, Q Wang - Agricultural Water Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Film mulched drip irrigation (FMDI) has clear benefits for saving water and promoting cotton
production in **njiang, China. Due to the complicated transport processes for soil water and …

A review of strategies, methods and technologies to reduce non-beneficial consumptive water use on farms considering the FAO56 methods

N Jovanovic, LS Pereira, P Paredes, I Pôças… - Agricultural water …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, research has developed a multitude of strategies, methods and
technologies to reduce consumptive water use on farms for adaptation to the increasing …

Evapotranspiration and crop coefficients for a super intensive olive orchard. An application of SIMDualKc and METRIC models using ground and satellite observations

TA Paço, I Pôças, M Cunha, JC Silvestre, FL Santos… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ET c) from the reference evapotranspiration (ET
o) and a standard crop coefficient (K c) in olive orchards requires that the latter be adjusted …

Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height: Practical application to vegetable, field and fruit crops with focus on parameterization

LS Pereira, P Paredes, F Melton, L Johnson… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The A&P approach, developed by Allen and Pereira (2009), estimates single and basal crop
coefficients (K c and K cb) from the observed fraction of ground cover (fc) and crop height …