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We (Myself A. Fares and A.K. Alva) have been involved in calculating
Evapotranspiration for young Citrus Trees grown on ridge soils in central
Florida. We used Capacitance probes (EnviroSCAN) for real-time measurement of
soil water content within and below the rootzone. These data were used along
a water mass balance model to calculate ET for these young trees. We
published two manuscript about this topic and we are working on two other.
These articles are entitled:
Fares, A. and A.K. Alva. 1999. Estimation of citrus evapotranspiration by
soil water mass balance. Soil Science (In press).
Fares, A., A.K. Alva, S. Paramasivam and P. Nkedi-Kizza. 1998. Soil
moisture monitoring techniques for optimizing citrus irrigation. Trends in
Soil Science.
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Ali Fares, Ph.D. (Hydrologist/Soil Scientist)
CREC, University of Florida
AF@GNV.IFAS.UFL.EDU
Ph (941) 956-1151, Fax: -4631
Dean T.J., Bell J.P. and Baty A.J.B. (1987). Soil moisture measurement by an improved capacitance technique, Part 1. Sensor design and performance, Journal of Hydrology, 93, 67-78.
Bell J.P., Dean T.J. and Hodnett M.G. (1987). Soil moisture measurement by an improved capacitance technique, Part II. Field techniques, evaluation and calibration, Journal of Hydrology, 93, 79-90.
Evett SR & Steiner JL. (1995). Precision of neutron scattering and capacitance type soil content gauges from field calibration. SSSAJ 59:4 961-968
Gaskin, G. J. Miller, J. D. (1996). Measurement of Soil Water Content Using a Simplified Impedance Measuring Technique. Journal of agricultural engineering research.
Whalley, W.R. Dean, T.J. Izzard, P. (1992). Evaluation of the Capacitance Technique as a Method for
Dynamically Measuring Soil Water Content.
Journal of agricultural engineering research.
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