Significant impacts of irrigation water sources and methods on modeling irrigation effects in the ACME Land Model

Leng, Guoyong; Leung, L. Ruby; Huang, Maoyi

doi:10.1002/2016MS000885

Title: Significant impacts of irrigation water sources and methods on modeling irrigation effects in the ACME Land Model

Journal Article · Thu Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000885· OSTI ID:1369477

Leng, Guoyong ^[1];

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Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park Maryland USA
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland Washington USA

An irrigation module that considers both irrigation water sources and irrigation methods has been incorporated into the ACME Land Model (ALM). Global numerical experiments were conducted to evaluate the impacts of irrigation water sources and irrigation methods on the simulated irrigation effects. All simulations shared the same irrigation soil moisture target constrained by a global census dataset of irrigation amounts. Irrigation has large impacts on terrestrial water balances especially in regions with extensive irrigation. Such effects depend on the irrigation water sources: surface-water-fed irrigation leads to decreases in runoff and water table depth, while groundwater-fed irrigation increases water table depth, with positive or negative effects on runoff depending on the pumping intensity. Irrigation effects also depend significantly on the irrigation methods. Flood irrigation applies water in large volumes within short durations, resulting in much larger impacts on runoff and water table depth than drip and sprinkler irrigations. Differentiating the irrigation water sources and methods is important not only for representing the distinct pathways of how irrigation influences the terrestrial water balances, but also for estimating irrigation water use efficiency. Specifically, groundwater pumping has lower irrigation water use efficiency due to enhanced recharge rates. Different irrigation methods also affect water use efficiency, with drip irrigation the most efficient followed by sprinkler and flood irrigation. Furthermore, our results highlight the importance of explicitly accounting for irrigation sources and irrigation methods, which are the least understood and constrained aspects in modeling irrigation water demand, water scarcity and irrigation effects in Earth System Models.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1369477

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1369478; OSTI ID: 1393744

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-122834

Journal Information:: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems; ISSN 1942-2466

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