Managing and Protecting Water Resources
ESTIMATING IRRIGATION WATER NEEDS OF LANDSCAPE
PLANTINGS
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
(Case of study: Comunidad de Madrid)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the water needs of landscape plantings, using a balance
between crop evapotranspiration and effective precipitation, in the Comunidad de
Madrid.
METHODOLOGY : The water needs of landscape plantings is calculated by a balance
between crop evapotranspiration and effective precipitation. To calculate the reference
crop evapotranspiration has been used the method of Penman Monteith. For calculating
the coefficient of crop species have been taken into account over 130 recommended
species for trees and gardening, by the Public Instruction of the City Council of Madrid
and the Spanish adaptation of the Classification WUCOLS (Water Use Classification of
Lansdscape Species).
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
1. ESTIMATING IRRIGATION WATER NEEDS OF LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS.
rainfall
evapotranspiration
irrigation
radiation
transpiration
•DRn monthly net irrigation needs (mm).
•DRb monthly gross irrigation needs (mm).
•ETc crop evapotranspiration (mm).
•Pe effective precipitation (mm).
•Er irrigation system efficiency.
root zone
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
1.1. CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (Etc). Density factors range (Kd).
•ETc crop evapotranspiration (mm)
•ETo reference crop evapotranspiration (mm)
•Kj landscape coefficient Species factors range (Kec).
•Kec species factor
•Kd density Factor
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
1.2. EFFECTIVE PRECIPITATION , Pe.
•Pe = monthly effective precipitation (mm).
•Pt = monthly total precipitation (mm).
•U = mean monthly consumptive (mm).
•f = 0,531747 + 0,011621 x D-0,000089 x D2 +
0,00000023 x D3,
•D = net irrigation application (mm).
To calculate the monthly effective
precipitation the formulation proposed
by the Soil Conservation Service of the
Department of Agriculture United States
will be used.
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
2. REFERENCE CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MAPS OF COMUNIDAD DE MADRID.
Municipalities
Municipalities
Distributed crop evapotranspiration reference . (ETo). Reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo), aggregated by municipalities
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
3. EFFECTIVE PRECIPITATION MAPS OF COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Municipalities
Annual distributed effective precipitation (mm). Municipalities
Annual effective precipitation (mm).
Annual distributed effective precipitation , Pe (mm). Effective precipitation (Pe (mm).aggregated by municipalities
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Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings
4. –VALUES OF NET WATER IRRIGATION NEEDS IN THE COMUNIDAD DE MADRID.
Total annual net water irrigation needs in some municipalities of the Comunidad de Madrid.
Peak month net water irrigation needs in some municipalities of the Comunidad de Madrid.
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