Estimating Soil Moisture Depletion from Climate, Crop and Soil Data

Abstract

TREMENDOUS international scientific effort has been expended on evaporation and transpiration problems during the past decade as evidenced by hundreds of technical publications, and numerous conferences. However, use of this scientific achievement by agriculturalists, project planners and operators of irrigation farms has lagged behind technological advancements. The lag in adaptation of new technology by the user can be partly attributed to a lack of time, technical training and experience in meteorology, physics and agronomy