iran as an arid and semi-arid country always faces with the problem of soil water shortage due to insufficient precipitation and, especially in light soils, low water holding capacity and high deep percolation. therefore, researchers have tried to use new methods for increasing this capacity to keep the water in the root zone and increase the amount of plant available water and water use effici...

In this paper, we investigate soil moisture, evapotranspiration and other major water balance components over six sites in the Sand Hills of Nebraska during a 6-year period (1998-2003) using a hydrological model. We simulate water budget components including root zone soil moisture and found that model predictions of soil moisture compare reasonably well with observations for these sites. In th...

1991). These properties include soil bulk density and chemical properties. This study investigated the relationships between corn (Zea mays An objective of site specific management is to apply L.) grain yield and weather over a range of soil rooting depths with appropriate levels of agricultural inputs to localized areas. and without irrigation. The purpose was to test if variability of corn Si...

A programmed software was developed in order to numerically simulate time variation of temperature field and snow depth around a pipe-in-pile snow-melting system, using meteorological data. The system utilized underground piles as heat exchanger between underground soil and water flowing inside the piles. The water was pumped into heat dissipation pipes embedded beneath pavement surface, on whi...

Traditionally torrential rains are considered as the main factor of flood emergence. With the examples of two disastrous floods in 2015 in absolutely different parts of the world, the authors roughly estimate the water balance and suggest an alternative hypothesis. The simplest model, taking into account precipitation, evaporation and soil permeability, clearly points out the significant discre...

evaporation is one of the most important components of hydrologic cycle.accurate estimation of this parameter is used for studies such as water balance,irrigation system design, and water resource management. in order to estimate theevaporation, direct measurement methods or physical and empirical models can beused. using direct methods require installing meteorological stations andinstruments ...

Process-based agricultural system models require detailed description of soil hydraulic properties that are usually not available. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the sensitivity of model simulation results to variability in measured soil hydraulic properties and to compare simulation results using measured and default soil parameters. To do so, we measured soil water retention cu...

water productivity is a function of crop yield and management operation. determination of different yield levels through field experiments is difficult. therefore, applying simulation model is an approach which makes possible to assess water balance, simulate growth process and survey different scenarios. using the cropsyst crop growth model to analyze water productivity, as an indicator of wat...

Although there appears to be some evidence to suggest that the concentration of CO2 in the soil may have A model that couples the diffusion of O2 to plant roots at the an effect on plant growth, the major effect of poor microscale to diffusion of O2 through the soil at the macroscale is derived. The solution is complex, but if the length scales (Zr and Zm; aeration on plant growth is the lack o...