In this paper, we investigate soil moisture, evapotranspiration and other major water balance components over six sites in the Sand Hills of Nebraska during a 6-year period (1998-2003) using a hydrological model. We simulate water budget components including root zone soil moisture and found that model predictions of soil moisture compare reasonably well with observations for these sites. In th...

Introduction The climate is a complex system that encompasses numerous Earth surface systems, i.e. the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that anthropogenic actions such as excess generation of greenhouse gases are causing serious climatic change. Water is a critical resource to humans, commerce, wildlife, and the ...

in this paper, we introduce environmental systems engineering (ese) and describe some of its applications combined with process systems engineering (pse) to problems related to environmental systems. these systems—the water cycle and ecosystem cycles—are complex and highly dynamic, with an uncertainty level comparable to that of chemical systems. to illustrate the challenges of applying pse to...

in order to study the effect of bio-fertilizers  in decrease the effects of water stress on yield, yield components and oil percentage of goldasht spring safflower cultivars (carthamus tinctorius l.), an experiment on split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications was carried out  in 2012 at the agricultural research station of islamic azad university of roudehen branc...

studies had shown that oxygenated compounds were important in food products. it seems that citrus species had a profound influence on this factor. the goal of the present study was to investigate on flavor components of two citrus species. in the early week of june 2012, about 500 g of leaves were collected from many parts of the same trees. leaf components were extracted using water distillati...

abstract in order to investigate the response of two species of p. ovata and p. psyllium to water deficit. the experiment was conducted during 2009 growing seasons in the agriculture research station ferdowsi of mashhad. for this purpose a split plot experiment based on complete randomized block design with three replications was used. four irrigation levels (4000, 3000, 2000, 1000 m3/ha) alloc...