Abstract
The SIRMOD and WinSRFR models were used to model and assess the irrigation performance under continuous and surge irrigation strategies with two furrow lengths of 70 m and 90 m and stream sizes of 0.4 l/s and 0.6 l/s for each length. According to the normalized root mean squared error (NRMSE) and the relative error (RE), WinSRFR had, on average, excellent accuracy in the continuous and surge irrigation for simulating advance-recession times (NRMSE: 6.15 and 4.24% for advance time, and 2.20 and 5.20% for recession time), infiltrated water depth (NRMSE: 3.37 and 6.38%), and runoff volume (RE: 6.93 and 2.57%), respectively. SIRMOD had also, on average, excellent simulation in the continuous and surge irrigation for advance-recession times (NRMSE: 3.34 and 2.45% for advance time, and 2.28 and 6.41% for recession time), infiltrated water depth (NRMSE: 2.98 and 5.27%), and runoff volume (RE: 5.31 and 17.49%), respectively. The average of irrigation application efficiency (AE), distribution uniformity (DU), deep percolation (DP), and tail-water ratio (TWR) were 61.50, 90.25, 11.75, and 26.75% in continuous irrigation, and 72.03, 94.09, 8.39, and 19.57% in surge irrigation, respectively, which shows that surge irrigation increased AE (irrigation management performance) and DU (irrigation method performance) and reduced DP and TWR compared to continuous irrigation. Moreover, longer furrow lengths increased AE and DP under both irrigation methods, while it decreased TWR and DU. However, increasing the stream size decreased AE and DP and increased TWR under both continuous and surge irrigations. The higher stream size improved DU in continuous irrigation but reduced DU in surge irrigation. The results confirmed that both SIRMOD and WinSRFR are reliable analytical tools to evaluate furrow irrigation strategies for improving irrigation management. In conclusion, this study showed that surface irrigation models could be employed in practice by irrigation engineers and practitioners to design and define the optimized furrow length and stream size in arid and semi-arid areas where efficient and high performance irrigation strategies are required to save water and reduce water loss.
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