Supporting decision-making in agricultural water management under data scarcity using global datasets – chances, limits and potential improvements

• Published in: Agricultural water management Vol. 296; p. 108803
• Main Authors: Kayatz, Benjamin, Baroni, Gabriele, Hillier, Jon, Lüdtke, Stefan, Freese, Dirk, Wattenbach, Martin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.05.2024; Elsevier
• Subjects: climate; Cool farm tool; Crop water requirement; Crop water use; data collection; decision making; decision support systems; eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; FAO56; farms; Irrigation; irrigation water; model validation; soil; water management; water stress; Irrigation; Cool farm tool; Crop water use; Crop water requirement; FAO56; Evapotranspiration

Assessing alternative agricultural water management strategies requires long-term field trials or vast data collection for model calibration and simulation. This work aims to assess whether an uncalibrated agro-hydrological model using global input datasets for climate, soil and crop information can...