a rain gauge network should serve general as well as specific purposes such as water supply, hydropowergeneration, flood forecasting, irrigation, and flood control. the level of accuracy a network can achieve depends onthe number and locations of gauges in the network. in this study, a rain gauge network was designed for hormozganprovince in the south of iran. monthly rainfall totals from 124 r...

BACKGROUND Soil application of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides can provide opportunities for long-term control of insect pests in vineyards, with minimal risk of pesticide drift or worker exposure. This study compared the effectiveness of neonicotinoid insecticides applied via irrigation injection on key early-season and mid-season insect pests of vineyards in the eastern United States. R...

Migratory bird populations are often limited by food during the non-breeding season. Correlative evidence suggests that food abundance on territories varies among years in relation to rainfall, which affects plant productivity and arthropod biomass. At the Font Hill Nature Preserve in Jamaica, we used an irrigation experiment to test the hypothesis that rainfall affects the condition of winteri...

When fruit set and rainfall are sufficient, grape yields in Arkansas are high, but rain is not always sufficient in Arkansas. There is enough, in terms of inches, but it often comes at the wrong times. Records during the past 20 years have shown that in all but 3 years in Northwest Arkansas, there have been brief dry spells during the growing season that lasted for at least two or three weeks. ...

The hydrodynamic behavior of two annual legumes (Trifolium angustifolium L. and Onobrychis caput-galli (L.) Lam.) under water shortage was studied in a rain shelter experiment. Seeds were collected from natural grasslands of northern Greece and were sown in pots. Two months after seedlings' emergence, full irrigation (up to field capacity) and limited irrigation (40% of field capacity) were app...

At present and more so in the future, irrigated agriculture will take place under water scarcity. Insufficient water supply for irrigation will be the norm rather than the exception, and irrigation management will shift from emphasizing production per unit area towards maximizing the production per unit of water consumed, the water productivity. To cope with scarce supplies, deficit irrigation,...

abstract in this research we studied the economical effects of rainfed irrigation and 4, 8, 12 and 16 day sprinkler irrigation intervals as well as their effects on water productivity and tea quality. the study was done in fouman tea research station, northern part of iran where tea is a major crop, during growing season of 2002-2004. the results showed that during dry season of 2002 and 2003 y...

AIM To evaluate the surgical treatment of a chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH). We compared two surgical treatments of CSDH: burr-hole craniostomy irrigation with and without drainage. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively studied patients with chronic subdural haematomas admitted to our hospital. A total of 87 patients underwent surgery: 57 were treated via burr-hole irrigation with postope...

Abstract. Based on the problems caused by current automatic irrigation system with a large number of cables, such as installation, maintenance, and difficult expansion, this paper proposed a wireless integrated irrigation control system and developed a wireless intelligent valve controller which can satisfy the requirements for agricultural irrigation in our country. The controller consisted o...