Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture: Measurement and Modelling

455 Pages·2011·4.91 MB·English

by  Manoj K. Shukla

Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture
Measurement and Modelling
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Soil Hydrology, Land Use
and Agriculture
Measurement and Modelling
Edited by
Manoj K. Shukla
New Mexico State University
USA
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Soil hydrology, land use and agriculture : measurement and modelling/edited
by Manoj K. Shukla.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84593-797-3 (alk. paper)
1. Soil moisture--Measurement--Computer simulation. 2. Hydrologic models. 3. Hydrology.
4. Land use--Environmental aspects. I. Shukla, Manoj. II. Title.
S594.S665 2011
631.4’32--dc22
2011003332
ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 797 3
Commissioning editor: Claire Parfitt
Production editor: Shankari Wilford
Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India.
Printed and bound in the UK by MPG Books Group.
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface xi
1 Introduction to Soil Hydrology: Processes and Variability 1
of Hydrological Properties
Manoj K. Shukla
2 Hydrological Modelling at Mesoscopic Scales Using Global Data Sets 24
to Derive Stream Water Availability Models of River Basins
Biswajit Mukhopadhyay and Vijay P. Singh
3 An Overview of Some Soil Hydrological Watershed Models 75
Sanjit K. Deb and Manoj K. Shukla
4 Modelling Agricultural Management Systems with APEX 117
Xiuying Wang, Pushpa Tuppad and Jimmy R. Williams
5 Application of the WEPP Model to Hillslopes and Watersheds in the USA 137
Dennis C. Flanagan
6 Application of the WEPP Model to Some Austrian Watersheds 151
Andreas Klik, Khaled Hardan and Hans-Peter Nachtnebel
7 Application of the SWAT Model for Ecohydrological Modelling in Germany 176
Martin Volk, Nicola Fohrer, Britta Schmalz and Antje Ullrich
8 Spatially Distributed Hydrological Modelling in the Illinois River Drainage 196
Area, Arkansas, Using SWAT
Dharmendra Saraswat and Naresh Pai
9 Hydrological Modelling: A Case Study of the Kosi Himalayan 211
Basin Using SWAT
A.K. Gosain, Sandhya Rao and A. Mani
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10 Deep Percolation from Surface Irrigation: Measurement and Modelling Using 231
the RZWQM
Carlos G. Ochoa, Alexander G. Fernald and Steven J. Guldan
11 CRITERIA-3D: A Mechanistic Model for Surface and Subsurface Hydrology 253
for Small Catchments
Marco Bittelli, Alberto Pistocchi, Fausto Tomei, Pier Paolo Roggero, Roberto Orsini,
Marco Toderi, Gabriele Antolini and Markus Flury
12 Effects of Artificial Drainage on Water Regime and Solute Transport 266
at Different Spatial Scales
Bernd Lennartz, Manon Janssen and Bärbel Tiemeyer
13 Effect of Land Use and Soil Management on Soil Properties and Processes 291
Sjoerd W. Duiker
14 Land Use and Agricultural Management Systems: Effects 312
on Subsurface Drain Water Quality and Crop Yields
Allah Bakhsh and Ramesh S. Kanwar
15 Climate Data for Hydrological and Agronomic Modelling 329
Max P. Bleiweiss and A. Salim Bawazir
16 Climate Change and Soil Hydrology: European Perspectives 350
Satish Bastola, Suresh Kumar, Conor Murphy and John Sweeney
17 Modelling the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Balance 366
and Agricultural and Forestry Productivity in Southern Portugal Using SWAT
João Pedro Nunes and Júlia Seixas
18 Soil Erosion by Water Under Future Climate Change 384
David Favis-Mortlock and Donal Mullan
19 Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Hydraulic Properties 415
Thomas Schmugge
Index 427
The colour plate section can be found following p. 212
Contributors
Gabriele Antolini, Environmental Protection Agency of Emilia-Romagna, HydroMeteoClimate
Service (ARPA-SIMC), Bologna, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Allah Bakhsh, Department of Irrigation and Drainage, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
38040, Pakistan. E-mail: [email protected]
Satish Bastola, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, Department of Geography, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
A. Salim Bawazir, Civil and Geological Engineering Department, New Mexico State University,
PO Box 30001, MSC 3CE, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Marco Bittelli, Department of AgroEnvironmental Science and Technology, University of
Bologna, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Max P. Bleiweiss, Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, New Mexico
State University, PO Box 30003, MSC 3BE, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003, USA. E-mail: mbleiwei@
taipan.nmsu.edu
Sanjit K. Deb, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State Univer-
sity, MSC 3Q, PO Box 30003 Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Sjoerd W. Duiker, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University,
116 ASI Building, University Park, PA 16802-3504. E-mail: [email protected]
David Favis-Mortlock, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK. E-mail: david.favis-mortlock@
ouce.ox.ac.uk
Alexander G. Fernald, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State Univer-
sity, PO Box 30003, MSC 3I, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Dennis C. Flanagan, USDA-ARS NSERL, 275 S. Russell Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2077,
USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Markus Flury, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman,
WA 99164-6420, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Nicola Fohrer, Ecology Centre, Institute for the Conservation of Natural Resources, Department
of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, CAU (Christian-Albrechts Universität)
Kiel, Olshausenstr. 75, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
A.K. Gosain, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi),
Haus Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India. E-mail: [email protected]
Steven J. Guldan, Alcalde Sustainable Agriculture Science Center, PO Box 159, Alcalde, NM
87511, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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viii Contributors
Khaled Hardan, Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering,
Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU (University of Natural Resourc-
es and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna), Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: khaled.
[email protected]
Manon Janssen, Institute of Agricultural Climate Research, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-
Institut (vTI), Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries,
Braunschweig, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Ramesh S. Kanwar, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State
University, 3013 Agronomy Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Andreas Klik, Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering,
Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU (University of Natural
Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna), Muthgasse 18A, A-1190 Vienna, Austria.
E-mail: [email protected]
Suresh Kumar, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, Department of Geography, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
Bernd Lennartz, Institute for Land Use, Rostock University, 18051 Rostock, Germany. E-mail:
[email protected]
A. Mani, Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar,
Hyderabad – 500030, India. E-mail: [email protected]
Biswajit Mukhopadhyay, Water Infrastructure Program, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.,
7950 Elmbrook Drive, Dallas, TX 75247-4951, USA. E-mail: Biswajit.Mukhopadhyay@
jacobs.com
Donal Mullan, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University
Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
Conor Murphy, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, Department of Geography, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
Hans-Peter Nachtnebel, Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering,
Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU (University of Natural Resources
and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna), Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: hans_peter.
[email protected]
João Pedro Nunes, CESAM and Department of Environment and Planning, Universidade
de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected]
Carlos G. Ochoa, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Roberto Orsini, Department of Environmental and Crop Sciences, Polytechnic University of
Marche, Ancona, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Naresh Pai, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Alberto Pistocchi, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Community
Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Sandhya Rao, INRM Consultants Pvt Ltd, New Delhi 110 075, India. E-mail: sandhya.delhi@
gmail.com
Pier Paolo Roggero, Desertification Research Group, Department of Agronomy and Plant
Breeding, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Dharmendra Saraswat, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Division of
Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 72204,
USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Britta Schmalz, Ecology Centre, Institute for the Conservation of Natural Resources, Department
of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, CAU (Christian-Albrechts Universität) Kiel,
Olshausenstrasse 75, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Thomas Schmugge, Physical Sciences Laboratory, New Mexico State University, PO Box 30002,
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Contributors ix
Júlia Seixas, CENSE (Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research), Faculdade de
Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected]
Manoj K. Shukla, Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State
University, MSC 3Q, PO Box 30003, 945 College Avenue, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vijay P. Singh, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University,
Scoates Hall, 2117 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
John Sweeney, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, Department of Geography,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
Bärbel Tiemeyer, Institute of Agricultural Climate Research, Johann Heinrich von
Thünen-Institut (vTI), Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries,
Braunschweig, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Marco Toderi, Department of Environmental and Crop Sciences, Polytechnic University
of Marche, Ancona, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Fausto Tomei, Environmental Protection Agency of Emilia-Romagna, HydroMeteoClimate
Service (ARPA-SIMC), Bologna, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Pushpa Tuppad, Blackland Research and Extension Center, Texas AgriLIFE Research,
720 East Blackland Road, Temple, TX 76502, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Antje Ullrich, Environmental Agency (UBA), Wörlitzer Platz 1, D-06844 Dessau-Roßlau,
Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Martin Volk, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research, UFZ (Umweltforschungszentrum), Permoserstrasse 15, D-04318
Leipzig, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Xiuying Wang, Blackland Research and Extension Center, Texas AgriLIFE Research,
720 East Blackland Road, Temple, TX 76502, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Jimmy R. Williams, Blackland Research and Extension Center, Texas AgriLIFE Research,
720 East Blackland Road, Temple, TX 76502, USA. E-mail: [email protected]