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Soil Moisture Data Assimilation to Estimate Irrigation Water Use.

R Abolafia-Rosenzweig¹, B Livneh^1,2, E E Small³

¹Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA.

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

|February 7, 2020

Summary

Accurately estimating irrigation water use is crucial for food security and water resource management. This study developed a new data assimilation method to predict irrigation magnitude, showing promising results even with noisy satellite data.

Keywords:

data assimilation irrigation land surface model particle batch smoother remote sensing soil moisture

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Area of Science:

Hydrology
Remote Sensing
Agricultural Science

Background:

Irrigation knowledge is vital for food security, water resource management, and understanding global water/energy cycles.
Consistent data on irrigation water application is lacking.
Accurate irrigation estimates are needed to address these knowledge gaps.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a novel method for predicting daily to seasonal irrigation magnitude.
To assess the impact of remotely sensed soil moisture characteristics on prediction performance.
To compare the efficacy of a particle batch smoother against a particle filter for irrigation estimation.

Main Methods:

A particle batch smoother data assimilation approach was employed.
Synthetic soil moisture data assimilation experiments were conducted.
Model configurations were varied to test different soil moisture characteristics and error sources.

Main Results:

Near-perfect irrigation estimates were achieved with noise-free synthetic data (0.66% bias, 0.95 correlation).
Estimates showed a median seasonal bias of <1% and 0.69 correlation with realistic satellite noise and irregular sampling.
Systematic biases between land surface models and satellite data significantly degraded performance.

Conclusions:

The developed framework shows potential for spatially continuous irrigation magnitude estimation.
Broad applicability hinges on improving irrigation scheduling methods and correcting soil moisture biases.
The particle batch smoother demonstrated superior performance over the particle filter in this application.