Three years of monitoring evapotranspiration components and crop and stress coefficients in a deficit irrigated intensive olive orchard

A long-term experiment was conducted to study water use of olive trees in a six-year-old, deficit irrigated, intensive olive orchard (‘Arbequina’) in one of the driest regions of Southern Portugal. Woody agricultural crops are regularly cultivated with some water stress to maintain an equilibrium between the vegetative and reproductive cycles, to improve production quality and, when irrigated, to save water. To achieve a precise irrigation...