Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1051-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1051-2017
Research article
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20 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 20 Feb 2017

A case study of field-scale maize irrigation patterns in western Nebraska: implications for water managers and recommendations for hyper-resolution land surface modeling

Justin Gibson, Trenton E. Franz, Tiejun Wang, John Gates, Patricio Grassini, Haishun Yang, and Dean Eisenhauer

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (30 Oct 2016) by Matthew McCabe
AR by Trenton Franz on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2016)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (24 Dec 2016) by Matthew McCabe
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Dec 2016) by Matthew McCabe
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (27 Dec 2016)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (22 Jan 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Jan 2017) by Matthew McCabe
AR by Trenton Franz on behalf of the Authors (02 Feb 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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Short summary
The human use of water for irrigation is often ignored in models and operational forecasts. We describe four plausible and relatively simple irrigation routines that can be coupled to the next generation of models. The routines are tested against a unique irrigation dataset from western Nebraska. The most aggressive water-saving irrigation routine indicates a potential irrigation savings of 120 mm yr−1 and yield losses of less than 3 % against the crop model benchmark and historical averages.