Global Irrigation Characteristics and Effects Simulated by Fully Coupled Land Surface, River, and Water Management Models in E3SM

Zhou, Tian; Leung, L. Ruby; Leng, Guoyong; Voisin, Nathalie; Li, Hong‐Yi; Craig, Anthony P.; Tesfa, Teklu; Mao, Yuna

doi:10.1029/2020MS002069

Title: Global Irrigation Characteristics and Effects Simulated by Fully Coupled Land Surface, River, and Water Management Models in E3SM

Journal Article · Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002069· OSTI ID:1678808

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA USA
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Houston Houston TX USA
Contractor to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA USA, College of Global Change and Earth System Science Beijing Normal University Beijing China

Abstract Irrigation supports agricultural production, but widespread use of irrigation can perturb the regional and global water cycle. The one‐way coupled irrigation scheme used in some land surface models and Earth system models assumes that surface water demand is always met and ignores the surface water constraints, leading to overestimation of surface water usage, underestimation of groundwater pumping, and unrealistic simulation of their seasonal variability. To better represent the irrigation processes, a two‐way coupled irrigation scheme is developed within the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). The new irrigation scheme simulates irrigation water demand and applies irrigation water in E3SM Land Model (ELM), which is coupled to a river routing model and a water management model (MOSART‐WM) that simulate streamflow, reservoir operations, and irrigation water supply. With two‐way coupling, surface water irrigation is constrained by the available runoff, streamflow, and reservoir storage. Simulations were performed for 1979–2008 at 0.5° spatial resolution to estimate irrigation surface water and groundwater use and their seasonality in global and large river basin scales. Compared to one‐way coupling, the two‐way coupling scheme (1) estimates less surface water withdrawal and less return flow due to the surface water constraint; (2) better represents groundwater recharge and groundwater level decline at global scale; and (3) is able to capture the seasonal dynamics of irrigation water allocations which reflect the local water conditions. The new development is an important step to more realistically account for the interactions between human water use and the terrestrial water cycle in an Earth system model.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05‐76RLO1830; AC05-76RL01830; DE‐AC05‐76RLO1830

OSTI ID:: 1678808

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1706689; OSTI ID: 1786817

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-147925; e2020MS002069

Journal Information:: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Vol. 12 Journal Issue: 10; ISSN 1942-2466

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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