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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47417#.VMijiyzQrzE Author(s)     Dipnarayan Ganguly , Raghab Ray , Natasha Majumder , Chumki Chowdhury , Tapan Kumar Jana Affiliation(s) Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . ABSTRACT Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important part of the water cycle. This study reports on the monsoonal influence on the temporal variation in evapotranspiration of an extremely water conservative and salinity stressed tropical mangrove forest at the land-ocean boundary of northeast coast of India. The magnitude and dynamics of evapotranspiration (ET) exhibited seasonality dom...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50274#.VDNjQFfHRK0 Author(s)   Nithya Rajan 1* , Stephan J. Maas 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Texas A & M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Vernon, Texas, USA . 2 Texas Tech University and Texas A & M AgriLife Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA . ABSTRACT While the amount of water used by a crop can be measured using lysimeters or eddy covariance systems, it is more common to estimate this quantity based on weather data and crop-related factors. Among these approaches, the standard crop coefficient method has gained widespread use. A limitation of the standard crop coefficient approach is that it applies to “standard conditions” that are invariant from field ...