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SUEWS_Irrigation.txt#
External water use may be used for a wide range of reasons (e.g. cleaning roads, irrigating plants, fountains, washing cars).
SUEWS has two options for External Water use (if non-zero):
provide observed data in meteorological forcing file in the
Wuhcolumn with valid values by settingWaterUseMethod= 1 in RunControl.nmla simple model that calculates daily water use from the mean daily air temperature, number of days since rain and fraction of irrigated area using automatic/manual irrigation. The user needs to supply coefficients (XXX) for these relations.
sub-daily pattern of water use is detemined from the daily cycles specified in SUEWS_Profiles.txt.
surface that the water can be applied to is specified by XX.
water can pond.
No. |
Column Name |
Use |
Description |
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1 |
Code linking to a corresponding look-up table. |
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2 |
Day when irrigation starts [DOY] |
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3 |
Day when irrigation ends [DOY] |
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4 |
Internal water use [mm h-1] |
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5 |
Fraction of irrigated area that is irrigated using automated systems |
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6 |
water depth to maintain used in automatic irrigation (e.g., ponding water due to flooding irrigation in rice crop-field) [mm]. |
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7 |
Base irrigation rate coefficient for automatic irrigation model. Represents baseline daily irrigation amount [mm d\ -1 ] |
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8 |
Temperature dependency coefficient for automatic irrigation model. Controls how irrigation responds to air temperature [mm d\ -1 K-1] |
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9 |
Nonlinear coefficient for automatic irrigation model. Modulates irrigation based on temperature and soil moisture interactions [mm d\ -2 ] |
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10 |
Base irrigation rate coefficient for manual irrigation model. Represents baseline daily irrigation amount [mm d\ -1 ] |
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11 |
Temperature dependency coefficient for manual irrigation model. Controls how manual irrigation responds to air temperature [mm d\ -1 K-1] |
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12 |
Nonlinear coefficient for manual irrigation model. Modulates irrigation based on temperature and soil moisture interactions [mm d\ -2 ] |
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13 |
Irrigation allowed on Sundays [1], if not [0] |
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14 |
Irrigation allowed on Mondays [1], if not [0] |
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15 |
Irrigation allowed on Tuesdays [1], if not [0] |
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16 |
Irrigation allowed on Wednesdays [1], if not [0] |
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17 |
Irrigation allowed on Thursdays [1], if not [0] |
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18 |
Irrigation allowed on Fridays [1], if not [0] |
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19 |
Irrigation allowed on Saturdays [1], if not [0] |
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20 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Sundays [0-1] |
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21 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Mondays [0-1] |
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22 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Tuesdays [0-1] |
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23 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Wednesdays [0-1] |
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24 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Thursdays [0-1] |
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25 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Fridays [0-1] |
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26 |
Fraction of properties using irrigation on Saturdays [0-1] |
An example SUEWS_Irrigation.txt can be found below:
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Code Ie_start Ie_end InternalWaterUse Faut Ie_a1 Ie_a2 Ie_a3 Ie_m1 Ie_m2 Ie_m3 DayWat(1) DayWat(2) DayWat(3) DayWat(4) DayWat(5) DayWat(6) DayWat(7) DayWatPer(1) DayWatPer(2) DayWatPer(3) DayWatPer(4) DayWatPer(5) DayWatPer(6) DayWatPer(7)
99999 1 366 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! No irrigation
1 152 243 0 0.2 -84.535 9.959 3.674 -25.36 2.988 1.102 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
550 1 366 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Swindon "(not used, no irrigation)"
660 1 366 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! London (assume no irrigation at the moment)
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