Regional Assessment of Soil Water Salinity across an Intensively Irrigated River Valley
Regional Assessment of Soil Water Salinity across an Intensively Irrigated River Valley
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集约灌溉河谷土壤水盐分区域评估
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2012
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T. Gates
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E. Morway;T. Gates
AbstractExtensive field investigations allowed depiction of soil water salinity within two large representative regions of a river valley that has been irrigated for more than 120 years. The nature and severity of the salinity problem is captured by hundreds of field surveys, encompassing tens of thousands of measurements and spanning 9 years. Soil water extract salinity, averaged over all surveys and all measured locations, is 4.1 dS m-1 in the Upstream Study Region and 6.2 dS m-1 in the Downstream Study Region. Variability over the measurements is substantial, with a coefficient of variation of approximately 0.51 Upstream and 0.39 Downstream. Relationships to soil and groundwater conditions also were explored, providing field-based insights into major contributing factors and into the value of measuring those factors as part of a salinity reconnaissance. A broad survey, like that described herein, affords a sense of the magnitude of economic loss, in terms of crop-yield reduction, that is exacted by i...