Responses of field evapotranspiration to the changes of cropping pattern and groundwater depth in large irrigation district of Yellow River basin

To solve the problems of decreasing water resources from the Yellow River, the renovation project of water-saving and controlling water distribution was implemented in the Hetao Irrigation District of North China since 1999. The local hydrological cycle is expected to be influenced or changed during the past fifteen years through the project. Jiefangzha Irrigation Region, the second large partition of the Hetao Irrigation District, was selected...