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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3695-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3695-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Drainage assessment of irrigation districts: on the precision and accuracy of four parsimonious models
Pierre Laluet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Luis Olivera-Guerra
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
now at: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-UPSACLAY, UMR 8212, IPSL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Víctor Altés
isardSAT, Doctor Trueta 113, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Environment and Soil Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Vincent Rivalland
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Alexis Jeantet
UR HYCAR, University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE Jouy-en-Josas, Antony, France
Julien Tournebize
UR HYCAR, University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE Jouy-en-Josas, Antony, France
Omar Cenobio-Cruz
Observatori de l'Ebre, Universitat Ramon Llull – CSIC, Roquetes, Spain
Anaïs Barella-Ortiz
Observatori de l'Ebre, Universitat Ramon Llull – CSIC, Roquetes, Spain
Pere Quintana-Seguí
Observatori de l'Ebre, Universitat Ramon Llull – CSIC, Roquetes, Spain
Josep Maria Villar
Department of Environment and Soil Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Olivier Merlin
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Data sets
Meteorological data Generalitat de Catalunya https://ruralcat.gencat.cat/agrometeo.estacions
Short summary
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.
Monitoring agricultural drainage flow in irrigated areas is key to water and soil management. In...