The intermittent or cyclic application of water to
furrows or borders, a method known as "surge flow irrigation",
can significantly improve the advance characteristics
of surface irrigation. Numerous field studies have
shown that the advance of furrows is considerably more
rapid when irrigated by surge flow than by the conventional,...
Evaluation and sensitivity analysis of a soil-water---
atmosphere-plant simulation model, SWATRE, developed by
Feddes et al (1978) in The Netherlands was conducted.
The evaluation was performed with the observed data
obtained by Cuenca (1978) for three different irrigation
levels in UC82 variety tomato fields in Davis,
California. SWATHE requires about...