Field Properties in Surface Irrigation Management and Design
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 5
Abstract
Field properties—topography, hydraulic resistance, and infiltration—play an important role in the performance of surface irrigation systems, and appropriate characterizations of these are required as data input to simulation or design software. The EWRI/ASCE Task Committee on Soil and Crop Hydraulic Properties has been charged with preparing a guide for practitioners faced with such data entry. The result is this special section of the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering in which this paper is the first in the series presented. It describes the characteristics of these field properties and notes a series of caveats to be considered when dealing with them in the course of analyses or designs of surface irrigation systems.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 5 • October 2009
Pages: 525 - 536
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Jul 31, 2008
Accepted: May 12, 2009
Published online: May 15, 2009
Published in print: Oct 2009
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