cropwatMUL: Crop Water Requirement and Irrigation Scheduling Across Multiple Locations

Estimates reference evapotranspiration, crop evapotranspiration, effective rainfall, crop water requirements, root-zone water balance, and irrigation schedules across multiple locations. The calculations use temperature-based procedures described in Food and Agriculture Organization Irrigation and Drainage Paper No. 56 and a workflow inspired by the 'CROPWAT' software for monthly-to-daily interpolation, aggregation into 10-day periods, and irrigation scheduling. Further details of the evapotranspiration calculations are provided by Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D. and Smith, M. (1998, ISBN:92-5-104219-5) "Crop Evapotranspiration: Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements" <https://www.fao.org/4/X0490E/X0490E00.htm>. The package is an independent implementation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports: dplyr, lubridate, openxlsx, purrr, readxl, stats, tibble, tidyr, utils
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-08-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cropwatMUL (may not be active yet)
Author: Manish Naskar ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Debasish Chakraborty ORCID iD [aut], Koushik Bag ORCID iD [aut], Shariti Syiem ORCID iD [aut], Akmaul Hoque ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Manish Naskar <manishkumarnaskar at gmail.com>
License: GPL (≥ 3)
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: cropwatMUL citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: cropwatMUL results

Documentation:

Reference manual: cropwatMUL.html , cropwatMUL.pdf
Vignettes: Using cropwatMUL for Crop-Water Assessment Across Multiple Locations (source, R code)

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Package source: cropwatMUL_0.1.0.tar.gz
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