Irrigation

This is a model to compute the needs of irrigation in an orchard in Switzerland. It has been assessed empirically over the years. This is an implementation adapted to Swiss conditions and climate of the model provided in the following reference.

• Antonio R. Pereira, Steve R. Green and Nilson A. Villa Nova, Sap flow, leaf area, net radiation and the Priestley–Taylor formula for irrigated orchards and isolated trees, Agricultural Water Management, 2007

Files and scripts

• The script Model_irrigation_fun.R is orginally based on the Excel sheets of P. Monney and have been tested.
• The whole documentation is available online here

Licencing

Irrrigation source codes, by Philippe Monney (conception) and Matthieu Wilhelm (code only) - Agroscope, Switzerland

Shield:

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