Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2025

Current editor(s): B.E. Clothier, W. Dierickx, J. Oster and D. Wichelns

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 311, issue C, 2025

Cover crop termination method has a limited effect on spring soil moisture and temperature in humid mid-Atlantic U.S

Cara M. Peterson, Harry H. Schomberg, Alondra I. Thompson, Steven B. Mirsky and Kate L. Tully

Evolution of chemical characteristics and irrigation suitability of groundwater in arid and semi-arid regions

Yan Yan, Haibin Shi, Qingfeng Miao, Yi Zhao, Xin Nie, Zhengzhong Li, Meiling Pan, Weiying Feng, José Manuel Gonçalves and Isabel Maria Duarte

Irrigation technology, irrigation dose, and crop genetic impacts on alfalfa yield and quality

Bradley S. Crookston, Dakota Boren, Matt Yost, Tina Sullivan, Earl Creech, Burdette Barker and Cheyenne Reid

Comparing evapotranspiration estimations using crop model-data fusion and satellite data-based models with lysimetric observations: Implications for irrigation scheduling

Claudio O. Stöckle, Mingliang Liu, Sunil A. Kadam, Steven R. Evett, Gary W. Marek and Paul D. Colaizzi

Remote sensing characterisation of cropping systems and their water use to assess irrigation management from field to canal command scale

Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Mobin-ud Din Ahmad and Yingying Yu

Evaluating the influence of different straw mulch-autumn irrigation patterns on soil water, heat, and salt in seasonally frozen regions with distributed SHAW model

Jing Xue, Chong Fu, Junfeng Chen and Lihong Cui

Trigger thresholds and propagation mechanism of meteorological drought to agricultural drought in an inland river basin

Lin Wang, Wei Wei, Lixin Wang, Shengnan Chen, Weili Duan, Qiang Zhang, Bing Tong, Zhiming Han, Zhi Li and Liding Chen

Effect of different data quality control on evapotranspiration of winter wheat with Bowen ratio method

Yingnan Wu, Qiaozhen Li, Xiuli Zhong, Daozhi Gong and Xiaoying Liu

Cutting nitrogen leaching in greenhouse soil by water-nitrogen partially decoupled drip fertigation

Jing He, Mingfen Niu, Jian Ma, Zhi Quan, Guangyu Chi, Caiyan Lu and Bin Huang

Benchmarking farm-level cotton water productivity using on-farm irrigation measurements and remotely sensed yields

Zitian Gao, Danlu Guo, Dongryeol Ryu and Andrew W. Western

Energy balance, water use efficiency, and photochemistry of two globally cultivated rainfed cactus species

Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, José Edson Florentino de Morais, Xuguang Tang, Luciana Sandra Bastos de Souza, Carlos André Alves de Souza, Wilma Roberta dos Santos, Fabio Ricardo Marin, George do Nascimento Araújo Júnior, Cléber Pereira Alves, Gabriel Italo Novaes da Silva, Renan Matheus Cordeiro Leite, Kaique Renan da Silva Salvador, Daniela de Carvalho Lopes, Antonio José Steidle Neto, Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto, João L.M.P. de Lima and Thieres George Freire da Silva

From weather data to water fluxes simulation in Mediterranean greenhouses through a combined climate and hydrological modelling approach

D. la Cecilia, A. Venezia, D. Massa and M. Camporese

Additive intercropping green manure enhances maize water productivity through water competition and compensation under reduced nitrogen fertilizer application

Hanting Li, Guocui Wang, Falong Hu, Zhilong Fan, Wen Yin, Weidong Cao, Qiang Chai and Tuo Yao

Remote sensing-based analysis of yield and water-fertilizer use efficiency in winter wheat management

Weiguang Zhai, Qian Cheng, Fuyi Duan, Xiuqiao Huang and Zhen Chen

Optimized fertilizer management strategy based on ridge–furrow planting pattern enhances dryland wheat yield and water utilization on the Loess Plateau

Jun Xing, Guojun Liu, Wenbo Zhai, Tong Gou, Zuoyan Zhou, Ai Hu, Kai Zhang, Dong Bai, Aixia Ren, Zhiqiang Gao and Min Sun

Optimized length and application rate of chopped straw for alfalfa production in ridge-furrow rainwater-harvesting in semi-arid regions in China

Xiaole Zhao, Qi Wang, Abdul Qadeer, Yuanwei Sun, Rizwan Azim, Ibrahim Awuku, Farzaneh Masoumkhani, Wen Ma, Qinglin Liu, Xunzhen Cui, Haixia Dong, Xuchun Li and Bing Liu

Automated irrigation of apple trees based on dendrometer sensors

Thainná Waldburger, Thomas Anken, Marianne Cockburn, Achim Walter, Matthias Hatt, Camilo Chiang and Hassan-Roland Nasser

Does water-saving irrigation truly conserve water? Yes and No

Nan Zhao, Xinjun Zheng, Bin Zhang, Shengchuan Tian, Lan Du and Yan Li

Integrated soil moisture fusion for enhanced agricultural drought monitoring in China

Aifeng Lv, Xianglei Yang, Wenxiang Zhang and Yan Han

Comparing crop growth models across the contiguous USA with a focus on dry and warm spells

Sneha Chevuru, Gambhir Lamsal, (Rens) van Beek, L.P.H., Michelle T.H. van Vliet, Landon Marston and Marc F.P. Bierkens

Synthesizing regional irrigation data using machine learning – Towards global upscaling via metamodeling

Søren Julsgaard Kragh, Raphael Schneider, Rasmus Fensholt, Simon Stisen and Julian Koch

Excessive irrigation-driven greening has triggered water shortages and compromised sustainability

Xiaoyao Lu, Minzhong Zou, Gary Gan and Shaozhong Kang

Volume 310, issue C, 2025

Pathways to balancing water and food for agricultural sustainable development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, China

Jianmei Luo, Ying Guo, Yongqing Qi and Yanjun Shen

Adaptation of VegSyst-DSS for N, P and K recommendations for grafted tomato grown in perlite in Mediterranean greenhouses

M. Gallardo, J.M. Cedeño, J.J. Magán, M.D. Fernández and R.B. Thompson

Stable soil moisture promotes shoot performance and shapes the root-rhizosphere microbiome

Dichuan Liu, Zhuan Wang, Guolong Zhu, Aiguo Xu, Renlian Zhang, Ray Bryant, Patrick J. Drohan, Huaiyu Long and Viola Willemsen

An agent-based model of farmer decision making: Application to shared water resources in Arid and semi-arid regions

Imane El Fartassi, Alice E. Milne, Helen Metcalfe, Rafiq El Alami, Alhousseine Diarra, Vasthi Alonso-Chavez, Joanna Zawadzka, Toby W. Waine and Ron Corstanje

Composite microbial agent improves cotton yield and resource use efficiency under mild salt stress by optimizing plant resource allocation

Xiao Zhao, Panpan Guo, Xiong Wu, Meng Zhu, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Jian Kang, Jinliang Chen, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Wanli Xu and Guangmu Tang

Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for simulating cotton growth under a semi-arid climate in Uzbekistan

Julien Boulange, Sherzod Nizamov, Aziz Nurbekov, Musulmon Ziyatov, Bakhtiyor Kamilov, Sirojiddin Nizamov, Abduaziz Abduvasikov, Gulnoza Khamdamova and Hirozumi Watanabe

Optimal water, nitrogen, and density management increased wheat yield by improving population uniformity

Yanmei Gao, Qi Wang, Yang Liu, Jie He, Weiwei Chen, Jun Xing, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao, Zhimin Wang, Meng Zhang and Yinghua Zhang

Optimized parameters for SCS-CN model in runoff prediction in ridge-furrow rainwater harvesting in semiarid regions of China

Qi Wang, Xiaole Zhao, Fuchun Li, Wucheng Zhao, Ibrahim Awuku, Wen Ma, Qinglin Liu, Bing Liu, Tao Cai, Yanping Liu and Xuchun Li

Improved MobileVit deep learning algorithm based on thermal images to identify the water state in cotton

Kaijun Jin, Jihong Zhang, Ningning Liu, Miao Li, Zhanli Ma, Zhenhua Wang, Jinzhu Zhang and Feihu Yin

Time-frequency insights: Uncovering the drivers of reference evapotranspiration across China

Shuting Zhao, Jinglong Wu, Rangjian Qiu, Tao Zhang, Yufeng Luo and Wei Hu

Farmer driven water conservation policy on the Ogallala aquifer reduces the environmental footprints of crop production

José P. Castaño-Sánchez, C. Alan Rotz, Jean L. Steiner, Bill Golden and Sheri A. Spiegal

A modified model for simulating subsurface drainage with synthetic envelope considering impacts of entrance resistance and its application

Yingzhi Qian, Xudong Han, Yan Zhu, Wei Yang and Jiesheng Huang

Cover-management impacts on runoff and sediment dynamics at different slope positions in Northeast China

Jianhui Zeng, Zhonglu Guo, Dongyao Li, Li Hua and Wei Li

Quantifying the influence of 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate on soil nitrous oxide production in multi-year reclaimed water-irrigated soil

Yanbing Chi, Chenchen Wei, Peiling Yang, Le Yang, Linlin Fan and Miaomiao Shi

Advancing irrigation uniformity monitoring through remote sensing: A deep-learning framework for identifying the source of non-uniformity

Ígor Boninsenha, Daran R. Rudnick, Everardo C. Mantovani and Higor de Q. Ribeiro

Water footprint and water productivity analysis of an alternative organic mulching technology for irrigated agriculture

Tommaso Pacetti, Niccolò Renzi, Marco Lompi, Andrea Setti, Daniele Spinelli, Giulio Castelli, Elena Bresci and Enrica Caporali

Climate change impacts on spatiotemporal variability of soybean water demands in North China Plain

Huiru Peng, Yang Zhang, Tiegui Nan, Xiaolin Yang, Steven Pacenka, Tammo S. Steenhuis and Jun Niu

Main influence indicators and regulatory pathways of emitter clogging under physical and chemical combination factors

Hui Wang, Xiaotao Hu, Wene Wang and Xiaopeng Ma

Coupled water–carbon flux processes of date palms under lysimeter-based saline irrigation: CoupModel calibration and evaluation

Jingbo Zhen, Per-Erik Jansson, Effi Tripler, Xiaotao Hu and Naftali Lazarovitch

Impacts of rice–crayfish co-culture on ecosystem service trade-offs/synergies in agricultural watersheds: A case exploration in Sihu Lake Basin, China

Huanyu Zhang, Ling Wang, Shuqi Jiang, Kun Li, Xiaoping Xin, Xin Huang, Junchen Chen, Luyao Zhou and Zhaohua Li

Volume 309, issue C, 2025

Effect of combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on summer maize yield and soil fertility in coastal saline-alkali land

Changjian Ma, Wu Wenbiao, Peng Hou, Yue Wang, Bowen Li, Huabin Yuan, Lining Liu, Xuejun Wang, Zeqiang Sun and Yan Li

Assessing the impacts of shifting planting dates on crop yields and irrigation demand under warming scenarios in Alberta, Canada

Qi Zhao, Lina Wu, Fei Huo, Zhenhua Li and Yanping Li

Estimating agricultural irrigation water consumption for the High Plains aquifer region with integrated energy- and water-balance evapotranspiration modeling approaches

Lei Ji, Gabriel B. Senay, MacKenzie Friedrichs and Stefanie Kagone

The value of simulating the soil water and nitrogen dynamics in decision support systems for plot-scale agro-environmental management

F. Huertas-Fernández, E.M. Suárez-Rey, C.L. Ramón, C. Giménez and F.J. Rueda

Deficit irrigation and biostimulation preconditioning to improve drought resistance in melon

Susana Zapata-García, Abdelmalek Temnani, Pablo Berríos, Pedro J. Espinosa, Claudia Monllor and Alejandro Pérez-Pastor

Optimizing water-use efficiency under elevated CO₂: A meta-analysis of crop type, soil modulation, and enrichment methods

Ali Mokhtar, Hongming He, Samar Attaher, Ali Salem and Muneer Alam

Economic efficiency of drip and flood irrigation. Comparative analysis at farm scale using DEA

Marta García-Mollá, Rosa Puertas Medina, Virgina Vega-Carrero and Carles Sanchis-Ibor

A discrete sliding mode control strategy for precision agriculture irrigation management

Leonardo D. Garcia, Camilo Lozoya, Herman Castañeda and Antonio Favela-Contreras

Achieving comprehensive water productivity improvement: A multi-objective simulation-optimization model for water productivity-oriented irrigation water management

Gang Li, Chenglong Zhang, Zailin Huo and Yanqi Liu

Three-dimensional soil salinity mapping with uncertainty using Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling, Random Forest Regression and remote sensing data

Zitian Gao, Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad and Altaf Ali Siyal

Evaluating the impact of drought and water restrictions on agricultural production in irrigated areas through crop water productivity functions and a remote sensing-based evapotranspiration model

Joaquim Bellvert, Magí Pamies-Sans, Jaume Casadesús and Joan Girona

Changes in shoot and root adaptations of fibrous-root and taproot crops in response to different drought types: A meta-analysis

Jicao Dao, Yuanjun Xing, Chunyi Chen, Mianhe Chen, Ziting Wang and Yinglong Chen

Improved estimation of stomatal conductance by combining high-throughput plant phenotyping data and weather variables through machine learning

Junxiao Zhang, Kantilata Thapa, Bai, Geng (Frank) and Yufeng Ge

Using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to predict winter wheat actual evapotranspiration through machine learning and deep learning methods

Yao Li, Xuanang Liu, Xuegui Zhang, Xiaobo Gu, Lianyu Yu, Huanjie Cai and Xiongbiao Peng

Humic acid improves water retention, maize growth, water use efficiency and economic benefits in coastal saline-alkali soils

Ge Li, Yuyang Shan, Weibo Nie, Yan Sun, Lijun Su, Weiyi Mu, Zhi Qu and Ting Yang

Dendrometer as a water stress indicator for apple trees

Thainná Waldburger, Achim Walter, Marianne Cockburn, Hassan-Roland Nasser, Philippe Monney, Matthias Hatt and Thomas Anken

Crop root system phenotyping with high water-use efficiency and its targeted precision regulation: Present and prospect

Jian Kang, Risheng Ding, Jinliang Chen, Siyu Wu, Weichen Gao, Zilu Wen, Ling Tong and Taisheng Du

Causal impact of adopting irrigation technology on agriculture in Ethiopia: Evidence from a propensity score matching

Markose Chekol Zewdie, Jan Cools and Steven Van Passel

An “initial-engineering-end use” quasi-market pricing mechanism under cascading risk for cross-regional water rights trading

Xuxia Li, Huimin Wang, Gang Liu, Liu Yang, Zhou Fang, Yi Xiao, Xiaoying Lai, Li Gao and Ying Teng

Institutional and technological innovations for sustained change in smallholder irrigation schemes in southern and Eastern Africa

Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Andre van Rooyen and Jamie Pittock

Evaluation of the effect of soil and irrigation water characteristics on the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Mentha spicata L. essential oil: A plant used in traditional medicine of Kashan people

Vajiheh Gandomi Hosnaroodi and Mansureh Ghavam

The vulnerability of regional agriculture regarding irrigation water from the Tagus-Segura transfer

José Daniel Buendía Azorín, Rubén Martínez Alpañez and María del Mar Sánchez de la Vega

Substitute for polyethylene (PE) films: A novel attapulgite super absorbent polymer applied in a semi-humid drought-prone region of the Loess Plateau

Xiaofan Pan, Hengjia Zhang, Shouchao Yu, Haoliang Deng, Xietian Chen, Chenli Zhou, Fuqiang Li and Haiyan Li

Integrated application of fertilization increased maize (Zea mays L.) yield by improving soil quality, particularly under limited water conditions in a semi-arid sandy area

Ning Wang, Tonghui Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Anqi Cong, Jie Lian and Keyun Feng

Explore the evolution of winter wheat production and its response to climate change under varying precipitation years in the Loess Plateau of China

Donglin Wang, Yanbin Li, Binbin Zhang, Tengcong Jiang, Siyu Wu, Wenjie Wu, Yi Li, Jianqiang He, Deli Liu, Qinge Dong and Hao Feng

Effects of long-term straw application and groundwater management on acidification of paddy soils in subtropical China: Insight from a 35-year field experiment

Yue Dong, Shuai Liu, Yiting Hu, Jan Mulder, Samuel Adingo, Yafeng Nie, Lichu Yin, Yan Ma and Xinhua Peng

Social barriers to water scarcity adaptation: A grounded theory exploration in arid and semi-arid regions

Yousof Azadi, Jafar Yaghoubi, Heydar Gholizadeh, Saeed Gholamrezai and Fatemeh Rahimi-Feyzabad

How water–energy–food services and their interactions change along multiple environmental gradients

Guangyi Deng, Haibo Jiang, Shuai Ma, Yang Wen, Chunguang He, Lianxi Sheng and Dehai Gu

Spatially optimized allocation of water and land resources based on multi-dimensional coupling of water quantity, quality, efficiency, carbon, food, and ecology

Yingbin Wang, Haiqing Wang, Jiaxin Sun, Peng Qi, Wenguang Zhang and Guangxin Zhang

Threat appraisal and individual adaptation as drivers for collaborative drought management in the Netherlands

Lars De Graaff, Marthe L.K. Wens, Jaime Hoogesteger, Maurizio Mazzoleni and Anne F. Van Loon

Effect of cover crops on phosphorus and trace metal leaching in agricultural soils

Vishawjot Sandhu, Jasmeet Lamba, Preetika Kaur, Kritika Malhotra, Thomas R. Way, Kipling S. Balkcom and Rishi Prasad

Trophic transfer of arsenic in the food chain from selected crops grown in long-term wastewater contaminated soil

Mudasra Munir, Kafeel Ahmad, Zafar Iqbal Khan, Shahzad Akhtar, Muhammad Nadeem, Asma Ashfaq, Mohammad Faisal, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, Hafiza Mamona Nazir and Ifra Saleem Malik

Long-term effects of a one-time application of flue gas desulfurization gypsum on the soil pore structure in sodic paddy fields

Jianzhong Guo, Bangyan Liu, Kangping Zhang, Zhentao Sun, Enbo Mo, Shujuan Wang, Jia Liu, Yan Li, Lizhen Xu and Yonggan Zhao

Digital technologies for water use and management in agriculture: Recent applications and future outlook

Carlos Parra-López, Saker Ben Abdallah, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Abdo Hassoun, Hana Trollman, Sandeep Jagtap, Sumit Gupta, Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour, Sureerat Makmuang and Carmen Carmona-Torres

Balancing water saving, market attractiveness, and pollution control in crop spatial planting structure planning of arid regions

Longbin Hao, Shouhong Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yufei Ren, Xinyu Zhang and Jing Yan

Prediction of drought-flood prone zones in inland mountainous regions under climate change with assessment and enhancement strategies for disaster resilience in high-standard farmland

Yongheng Shen, Qingxia Guo, Zhenghao Liu, Yanli Shen, Yikun Jia and Yuehan Wei

Can a tiered water price policy improve the technical efficiency of crop irrigation for maize in the Heihe River Basin in Northwest China?

Guifang Li and Dongdong Ma

Distributed hydrodynamic modelling for assessing flood impacts on crops: Assessing flood-resilient crop management in a coastal basin of central Italy

Thomas Lucaora, Antonio Annis, Fernando Nardi, Maria Cristina Rulli and Davide Danilo Chiarelli

Using remote sensing and machine learning to generate 100-cm soil moisture at 30-m resolution for the black soil region of China: Implication for agricultural water management

Liwen Chen, Boting Hu, Jingxuan Sun, Y. Jun Xu, Guangxin Zhang, Hongbo Ma and Jingquan Ren

Present and future challenges for hydraulic reliability and energy efficiency in collective irrigation systems: A participatory modelling approach

Maria do Rosário Cameira, Antónia Ferreira, Luis Boteta, Pedro Santos Fortes and Maria João Calejo

Modeling quinoa growth under saline and water-limiting conditions using SWAP-WOFOST

Diana C. Estrella Delgado, Tom De Swaef, Jan Vanderborght, Eric Laloy, Gerda Cnops, Maarten De Boever, Abdelaziz Hirich, Ayoub El Mouttaqi and Sarah Garré

Determining the optimal degradation rate of biodegradable films in a maize farmland based on the EWM-TOPSIS model

Wangwang Zhang, Weishu Wang, Yuanzheng Zhang, Fangping Wang and Shijun Sun

Exploring the allometry between ear saturated water accumulation and dry mass for diagnosing winter wheat water status during the reproductive growth

Tingxuan Zhuang, Ben Zhao, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim, Gilles Lemaire, Xiaojun Liu, Yongchao Tian, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao and Qiang Cao