SUBSURFACE TRICKLE IRRIGATION EVALUATION AS RELATED TO WATER FLOW IN SOIL AND EMITTTER

New Strategy for Optimizing Water Application under Trickle Irrigation

The determination of water application parameters for creating an optimal soil moisture profile represents a complex nonlinear optimization problem which renders traditional optimization into a cumbersome procedure. For this reason, an alternative methodology is proposed which combines a numerical subsurface flow model and artificial neural networks ~ANN! for solving the problem in two, fully s...

Effects of salinity and irrigation water management on soil and tomato in drip irrigation

In this research, the effects of irrigation with saline and fresh water through drip irrigation method and using two irrigation management strategies: M1, M2 (M1 is irrigation with fresh water in alternative with saline water, M2 is saline water in first half time of each irrigation event and fresh water in the second half), on the yield, water productivity (WP), soil salinity, plant height...

Water stress of sugarbeet as related to leaf and canopy temperatures and to leaf Water content

effect of saline water management on soil and tomato yield in subsurface drip irrigation

in this research, effects of subsurface drip irrigation method on soil and tomato yield was investigated under different salinities and two irrigation management strategies: m1= alternating irrigation with fresh water and saline water, and m2= saline water in the first half of each irrigation event and fresh water in the second half. the experiment was conducted in 320 m2 area including 30 plot...

Evaluation of preferential flow component of RZWQM in simulating water and atrazine transport to subsurface drains

The ARS Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM ver. 3.25) was used to simulate the effect of field measured macroporosity on atrazine transport to subsurface drain lines. Field data on atrazine concentrations in subsurface drain flow from corn fields, for modified no-till (mNT) and moldboard plow (MP) systems, were used to evaluate the performance of the RZWQM for the growing seasons of 1990, 199...