CROPWAT: A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IRRIGATION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
- ROME: FAO, 1992.
- 126P
- FAO IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE PAPER NO.46 .
Part 1: Manual of cropwat. 1. Introduction. 2. Setting up cropwat 2.1 Conditions of use and distribution. 2.2 Installation. 2.3 File structure. 3. Getting started on cropwat. 3.1 Main menu. 3.2 Printer setting. 3.3 Default drive and path for data input and retrieval 4. ETo calculations 4.1 Input climatic data 4.2 Retrieval of ETo data from disk. 4.3 Output. 5. Crop waters requirements 5.1 Input climate data. 5.2 Input of crop data. 5.3 Crop water requirement results. 5.4 Program continuation 6. Rice water requirements. 6.1 Input of rice data from keyboard. 6.2 Saving of rice data. 6.3 Retrieval of rice data from disk. 6.4 Date of transplanting 6.5 Rice irrigation calculations 6.6 Rice irrigation output. 6.7 Program continuation. 7. Irrigation scheduling. 7.1 Data input for irrigation scheduling. 7.2 Irrigation scheduling options 7.3 Irrigation scheduling calculations 7.4 Irrigation scheduling output. 7.5 Program continuation. 8. Scheme water supply. 8.1 Data input. 8.2 Calculations 8.3 Output. Part 2: Guidelines for cropwat. 1. Introduction. 2. Calculations of references evapotranspiration. 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Data collection 2.3 Data conversion. 2.4 Climatic data input. 2.5 Climatic data and ETo output. 2.6 Climatic and ETo data savings 3. Processing of rainfall data. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Rainfall definitions 3.3 Rain data collection. 3.4 Rain data processing 3.5 Effective rainfall methods. 3.6 Rain data input. 3.7 Savings climatic data. 3.8 Printout of climatic data. 4. Cropping patterns and crop information. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Data collection 4.3 Cropping pattern 4.4 Crop data input 5. Crop water requirements calculations 5.1 File input 5.2 CWR calculations 5.3 CWR field files. 5.4 Summary of CWR calculations. 6. Scheme and canal water requirements.6.1 Calculation procedures. 6.2 Field file input. 6.3 Scheme water requirements (SWR) results 6.4 Evaluation of SWR results 7. Irrigation scheduling 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Data input 7.3 Irrigation scheduling applications.