Irrigation and climate: New aids to engineering planning and development of water resources

Chapter 1. Introduction: Broad outline of the problems Chapter 2. Historical: Review of the literature 2.1 Transpiration from crop-soil unit's 2.2 free water surface evaporation Chapter 3. The development of methods for estimating basic monthly crop-soil water requirements 3.1 Brief descriptions with comments on existing methods 3.2 Summary of deduction s from previous research incorporated in arguments towards a new approach 3.3 Development of the argument Chapter 4. Meteorological considerations 4.1 Special considerations arising from current practice relating to the derivation and reliability of averages of climatological data 4.1 Means of temperature 4.2 Means of relative humidity Chapter 5. Irrigation studies: Practical applications of the formula CuO = c (WO) 5.1 North African Series 5.2 East African series 5.3 South African series 5.4 Australian series 5.5 Indian and Pakistani series 5.6 Miscellaneous series 5.7 European series 5.8 USA series Chapter 6. Estimation of losses from Marshes and of the basic water requirements of wetfoot crops 6.1 Sudan. Sudd region: Marsh 6.2 Lower Egypt - rice 6.3 Uganda: Lake Kioga Marshes 6.4 USA California: Sacramento Basin Chapter 7. A summary of conclusions with special reference to application of the formulae and some thoughts on possible future lines of research 7.1 Basic water requirements for dryfoot cropland units 7.2 Basic water requirements for wetfoot cropland units 7.3 Evaporation 7.4 Some suggestions for additional investigations

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