Efficient water use in residential urban landscapes

RS Hilaire, MA Arnold, DC Wilkerson, DA Devitt… - …, 2008 - journals.ashs.org
In the United States, urban population growth, improved living standards, limited
development of new water supplies, and dwindling current water supplies are causing the …

A review of warm‐season turfgrass evapotranspiration, responses to deficit irrigation, and drought resistance

TD Colmer, L Barton - Crop science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Knowledge of turfgrass evapotranspiration (ETc) and drought resistance can enable water
conservation by guiding turfgrass selection for various climates and irrigation scheduling …

Impact of plant evapotranspiration rate and shrub albedo on temperature reduction in the tropical outdoor environment

CL Tan, NH Wong, PY Tan, SK Jusuf… - Building and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Implementation of urban greenery is a widely adopted mitigation strategy to reducing the
Urban Heat Island effect. Many studies have shown that urban greenery is effective in …

Evapotranspiration of urban lawns in a semi-arid environment: An in situ evaluation of microclimatic conditions and watering recommendations

E Litvak, DE Pataki - Journal of Arid Environments, 2016 - Elsevier
As many regions worldwide are increasingly affected by water scarcity caused by
unprecedented climate change and population growth, current practices of landscape …

Penman Monteith crop coefficients for use with desert turf systems

PW Brown, CF Mancino, MH Young… - Crop …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation scheduling systems which estimate actual evapotranspiration (ETa) by adjusting
reference evapotranspiration (ETo) with crop coefficients (Kcs) have been suggested as a …

Consumptive water use and crop coefficients for warm-season turfgrass species in the Southeastern United States

B Wherley, MD Dukes, S Cathey, G Miller… - Agricultural water …, 2015 - Elsevier
Increased urban demand for landscape irrigation, as well as interest in promoting water-use
efficient species by municipalities, water purveyors, and homeowners associations …

Bowen Ratio estimates of evapotranspiration for Tamarix ramosissima stands on the Virgin River in southern Nevada

DA Devitt, A Sala, SD Smith, J Cleverly, LK Shaulis… - 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A Bowen ratio energy balance was conducted over a Tamarix ramosissima (saltcedar) stand
growing in a riparian corridor along the Virgin River in southern Nevada. Measurements in …

Use of thermal units to estimate corn crop coefficients under semiarid climatic conditions

A Martínez-Cob - Irrigation Science, 2008 - Springer
Two crop coefficient equations were derived as a function of fraction of thermal units from
lysimeter measured corn evapotranspiration (ET c-lys) during 1997 and 1998, and reference …

Evapotranspiration and crop coefficient for watermelon grown under plastic mulched conditions in sub-tropical Florida

S Shukla, NK Shrestha, FH Jaber, S Srivastava… - Agricultural water …, 2014 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET c) fluxes from plastic mulch production systems are different than
open field production systems and require quantification of ET c for plastic mulch …

Simplified landscape irrigation demand estimation: Slide rules

R Kjelgren, RC Beeson, DP Pittenger… - Applied Engineering …, 2016 - elibrary.asabe.org
Irrigated urban landscapes must increasingly maintain economic and ecosystem value with
less water in response to drought amplified and shifted by climate change. Efficient …