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Simulation of crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients with data in weighing lysimeters

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  • Anapalli, Saseendran S.
  • Ahuja, Lajpat R.
  • Gowda, Prasanna H.
  • Ma, Liwang
  • Marek, Gary
  • Evett, Steven R.
  • Howell, Terry A.

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Accurate quantification of crop evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to optimizing irrigation water productivity, especially, in the semiarid regions of the world where limited rainfall is supplemented by irrigation for crop production. In this context, cropping system models are potential tools for predicting ET or crop water requirements in agriculture across soils and climates and assist in developing decision support tools for irrigation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of RZWQM2 simulated ET for fully irrigated silage (2006 and 2007) and grain corn (1990) against measured crop water use and soil evaporation with large weighing lysimeters in the Texas High Plains. An extended Shuttleworth and Wallace method was used to estimate potential crop ET (E and T) demand in RZWQM2. The Nimah and Hanks approach was used for crop water uptake and Richard’s Equation for soil water redistribution modeling. Simulations of biomass, leaf area index, soil water storage, and ET were reasonably close to the measured data. Root Mean Squared Deviation (RMSD) for corn biomass was between 1 and 2.1 MT ha−1, LAI between 0.33 and 0.88, water in the soil between 2 and 2.9cm for a 190cm soil profile, and actual daily crop ET between 1.0 to 1.5mm across the three years of measured data. Arithmetic mean deviation (MD) for ET ranged from −0.10 to 0.40mm. Fallow soil evaporation before and after corn planting was simulated within MD of −0.03–0.003mm. The crop coefficients (Kc) calculated with measured ET and the short grass or alfalfa crop reference ET methods varied from year to year. The Kc values obtained by using the simulated ET and alfalfa reference ET were close to Kc values using measured ET, within RMSD of 0.17, and could be used to obtain long-term average Kc values for scheduling irrigation.

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  • Anapalli, Saseendran S. & Ahuja, Lajpat R. & Gowda, Prasanna H. & Ma, Liwang & Marek, Gary & Evett, Steven R. & Howell, Terry A., 2016. "Simulation of crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients with data in weighing lysimeters," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 274-283.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:177:y:2016:i:c:p:274-283
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2016.08.009
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