Document Type : Original Article
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M.Sc. Student of Irrigation and drainage, Department of Water Sciences and Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Department of Water Sciences and Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Professor, Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and extension Organization, Karaj,
10.22125/iwe.2023.396538.1718
Abstract
This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating the WOFOST for simulating the corn yield and water productivity in two different conditions of water amounts and nitrogen fertilizer supply.In the first research project, the factors of irrigation water amount in four levels and nitrogen fertilizer in four amounts and in the second project, fertilizer in four levels and fertilizer splitting were considered.The results showed that in the first projct, the accuracy of the WOFOST model for simulating water yield and water productivity was in the excellent and medium categories, respectively, while the accuracy of this model in the second project was determined in the excellent category for both aforementioned parameters.The efficiency of the WOFOST model for simulating yield in both project and water productivity in the second one was acceptable, but for simulating water productivity in the first project was in poor conditions.In the first project, changing the nitrogen fertilizer consumption from N1 to N4 caused an increase in the difference between yield in observation and simulation conditions.The amount of irrigation water had no effect on changing the WOFOST accuracy and error.In the second project, increasing the distribution of nitrogen fertilizer from T1 to T2 caused the error of this model to decrease from 6.5 to 3.6 percent.Based on the results, it is necessary to conduct more studies to use the WOFOST model to simulate corn in different amounts of irrigation water, but this model can be used to simulate corn in different amounts and splitting of nitrogen fertilizer.
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