| ABSTRACT: Among the several methods used to manage irrigation, the ones based on the calculation of crop water consumption or evapotranspiration are the most common. From those, the one presented by Doorenbos e Pruitt (1977) is the most used. Based on this method, the crop evapotranspiration is calculated multiplying a crop reference evapotranspiration by a crop coefficient. Applying this methodology in some situations is not convenient, for instance, in the estimative of crop water use efficiency. Besides of this, a good estimative of crop coefficient is difficult and should be done for each region, once is site specific. Options to this method are the models that calculate the evaporation and transpiration separately. Among those, the one presented by... |
