Articles | Volume 28, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3695-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3695-2024
Research article
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16 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 16 Aug 2024

Drainage assessment of irrigation districts: on the precision and accuracy of four parsimonious models

Pierre Laluet, Luis Olivera-Guerra, Víctor Altés, Vincent Rivalland, Alexis Jeantet, Julien Tournebize, Omar Cenobio-Cruz, Anaïs Barella-Ortiz, Pere Quintana-Seguí, Josep Maria Villar, and Olivier Merlin

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Meteorological data Generalitat de Catalunya https://ruralcat.gencat.cat/agrometeo.estacions

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Monitoring agricultural drainage flow in irrigated areas is key to water and soil management. In this paper, four simple drainage models are evaluated on two irrigated sub-basins where drainage flow is measured daily. The evaluation of their precision shows that they simulate drainage very well when calibrated with drainage data and that one of them is slightly better. The evaluation of their accuracy shows that only one model can provide rough drainage estimates without calibration data.