A new agricultural drought index considering the irrigation water demand and water supply availability

Zikang Xing, Miaomiao Ma (), Yongqiang Wei, Xuejun Zhang, Zhongbo Yu and Peng Yi
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Zikang Xing: Hohai University
Miaomiao Ma: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Yongqiang Wei: Hunan Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Xuejun Zhang: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Zhongbo Yu: Hohai University
Peng Yi: Hohai University

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2020, vol. 104, issue 3, No 22, 2409-2429

Abstract: Abstract Agricultural drought has a tremendous impact on crop yields and economic development under the context of global climate change. As an essential component of water balance in irrigated areas, artificial irrigation, which is not widely incorporated into agricultural drought indices in previous studies. Therefore, an irrigation water deficit index (IWDI) based on the estimation of irrigation water demand and supply is proposed. The performance of the new index was compared with the Soil Moisture Anomaly Percentage Index (SMAPI) over the upstream of the Zi River basin (UZRB). The results indicated the IWDI is highly correlated with precipitation, runoff, and potential evapotranspiration, combined with a more comprehensive moisture condition than the previous agricultural drought index. Due to the consideration of crop growth process and farmland spatial distribution, the proposed index showed a significant advantage in stressing drought conditions of agricultural concentration area and eliminating the impact of invalid soil moisture drought of non-growing seasons. Furthermore, the drought condition identified by the new index presented a good agreement with the historical drought event that occurred in 2013.7–8, which accurately reproduced the soil moisture variation and vegetation growth dynamics.

Keywords: Drought; Agriculture; Index; Irrigation; Hydrological model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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