This study employs a knowledge intensive corpus analysis to identify the elements of the communicative context which can be used to determine the appropriate lexical and grammatical form of instructional texts. imagene, an instructional text generation system based on this analysis, is presented, particularly with reference to its expression of precondition relations.

reference evapotranspiration is an important parameter in irrigation systems' design that is evaluated through either direct (lysimeter) or calculated method (empirical equations). when there is a lack of lysimeters' data, penman monteith fao method could be employed as a standard method for evaluating the other empirical methods' results. in this research, 13 year evaporation pa...

The information on transpiration is vital for sustaining fragile ecosystem in arid/semiarid environment, including the Horqin Sandy Land (HSL) located in northeast China. However, such information is scarce in existing literature. The objectives of this study were to: (1) measure sap flow of selected individual stems of two sand-fixing plants, namely Salix gordejevii and Caragana microphylla, i...

This study is an attempt to find best alternative method to estimate reference evapotranspiration (ETo) for the Nagarjuna Sagar Reservoir Project [NSRP], command area located at Andhra Pradesh, India. When input climatic parameters are insufficient to apply standard Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Penman–Monteith (P–M) method. To identify the best alternative clima...

Crop coefficient for cherries was evaluated by measure the water consumption in Michigan State to find its variation with time as plant growth. coefficients value (Kc) were predicated University (MSU) and also Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) according consume of through season. In this paper crop are modified accordingly actual measurements soil moisture content. Actual evapotranspiration (...

In both Australia and Swaziland large areas of sugarcane rely on irrigation to produce a viable crop or to improve rainfed productivity. Matching water supply to crop demand is essential for productivity and sustainability in any irrigation scheme. Historically Class-A pan evaporation was used as a basis for determining sugarcane water demand or evapotranspiration (ETc). ETc is now frequently o...

For the Penman±Monteith equation to be used to predict crop evapotranspiration in a one-step approach, methodologies for determining surface resistance (rs) must be available. One usual approach to the modelling of rs is to compute it by inverting the Penman±Monteith equation and then relate it to the most important environmental variables (radiation, temperature, vapour pressure deficit) using...

[1] The Penman-Monteith equation is often used to estimate transpiration, but an important limitation to this approach, especially for mountainous forested sites, is an accurate estimate of canopy conductance averaged over the area of interest (Gs). We propose a method for estimating watershed-scale transpiration using estimates of Gs derived from measurements of stable isotopes. To estimate Gs...