PUBLICATION W809E
Tools to Determine Crop Water Use
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Summary
Methods that directly measure the potential for water use from plants are explained. They include evaporation pans (water drop in a standard size pan) and atmometers (evaporation from a water column through a porous ceramic top covered by green cloth).
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