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Original Articles

Improving a Penman–Monteith evapotranspiration model by incorporating soil moisture control on soil evaporation in semiarid areas

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Pages 134-156 | Received 23 Sep 2012, Accepted 06 Mar 2013, Published online: 10 Apr 2013

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