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 …

Assessing potato transpiration, yield and water productivity under various water regimes and planting dates using the FAO dual Kc approach

P Paredes, D D'Agostino, M Assif, M Todorovic… - Agricultural water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two years of experimental field data on potato (var. Spunta) were used to calibrate and
validate the SIMDualKc model. This model adopts the FAO dual K c approach that provides …

Coping 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 …

A comparison of numerical and machine-learning modeling of soil water content with limited input data

F Karandish, J Šimůnek - Journal of Hydrology, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil water content (SWC) is a key factor in optimizing the usage of water resources in
agriculture since it provides information to make an accurate estimation of crop water …

[PDF][PDF] Updates and advances to the FAO56 crop water requirements method

LS Pereira, P Paredes, DJ López-Urrea… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - repository.utl.pt
FAO56-Crop Evapotranspiration: Guidelines to Compute Crop Water Requirements–
proposed to the irrigation and academic world a comprehensive methodology for computing …

Implementing the dual crop coefficient approach in interactive software. 1. Background and computational strategy

RD Rosa, P Paredes, GC Rodrigues, I Alves… - Agricultural Water …, 2012 - Elsevier
Irrigation planning and scheduling require the availability of modeling tools that are
accurate, quick and easy to use. The crop coefficient (Kc)-reference evapotranspiration (ET) …

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 …

Implementing the dual crop coefficient approach in interactive software: 2. Model testing

RD Rosa, P Paredes, GC Rodrigues… - Agricultural Water …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper is the second of a two-part series, with the first part describing the SIMDualKc
model, an irrigation scheduling simulation tool that employs the dual crop coefficient …

Partitioning evapotranspiration, yield prediction and economic returns of maize under various irrigation management strategies

P Paredes, GC Rodrigues, I Alves, LS Pereira - Agricultural water …, 2014 - Elsevier
Several maize field experiments, including deficit and full irrigation, were used to assess
irrigation impacts on yields. The SIMDualKc water balance model was first calibrated and …

Combining FAO-56 model and ground-based remote sensing to estimate water consumptions of wheat crops in a semi-arid region

S Er-Raki, A Chehbouni, N Guemouria… - Agricultural water …, 2007 - Elsevier
This study was performed to test three methods based on the FAO-56 “dual” crop coefficient
approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration (AET) for winter wheat under different …