Potential changes in irrigation requirements and phenology of maize, apple trees and alfalfa under global change conditions in Fluvià watershed during XXIst century: Results from a modeling approximation to watershed-level water balance

Future climate change impacts on apple flowering date in a Mediterranean subbasin

“…1) was the Fluvià river lower course subbasin (delineated in Savé et al, 2012see also Lopez-Bustins et al, 2013and Pascual et al, 2014, located at the Northeast of the province of Girona (NE Spain). The subbasin has an area of 36.14 km 2 and 0, 57 to 162 m sea level elevation (minimum, mean and maximum, respectively).…”

Identifying the future water and salinity risks to irrigated viticulture in the Murray-Darling Basin, South Australia

“…Since the climate projections have a strong variability, 100 stochastic datasets were generated by the downscaling model (NHMM) for different GCMs. Rather than selecting a few ensembles of a suite of models, as usually done in many studies (Fischer et al, 2007;Xiong et al, 2010;Gondim et al, 2012;Save et al, 2012;Lee and Huang, 2014;Woznicki et al, 2015), we adopted all 100 ensembles of a better performing model (Charles and Fu, 2015) so that the uncertainty in climate projections can be adequately addressed in modeling scenarios. The GCM (GFDL ESM2 M) data downscaled for RCP8.5 for Loxton in the Riverland were used in the current modeling study to consider the worst-case scenario for the water related risks to viticulture.…”

“…However, the information on the future irrigation requirements of viticulture and the magnitude of other related risks (salinity) in the soil is sparse. A number of modeling studies have attempted to evaluate the effects of climate change on water use in agriculture for other crops (Fischer et al, 2007;Elgaali et al, 2007;De Silva et al, 2007;Xiong et al, 2010;Gondim et al, 2012;Save et al, 2012;Lee and Huang, 2014;Woznicki et al, 2015). Most of these studies showed an increase in the irrigation demand for typical annual crops.…”

Modeling Agricultural Land Management to Improve Understanding of Nitrogen Leaching in an Irrigated Mediterranean Area in Southern Turkey

“…And these are only a few of watershed modes, which are currently and commonly under the service of scientists and practitioners [30]. Soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model is one of the tools developed to predict water and nutrient dynamics [31][32][33][34].…”