Optimal Irrigation with Perfect Weekly Forecasts versus Imperfect Seasonal Forecasts
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 145, Issue 5
Abstract
This study examines the impact of weekly and seasonal weather forecasts on the optimal irrigation scheduling problem. We compare stochastic and deterministic simulation-optimization frameworks for irrigation scheduling using perfect weekly (deterministic) and imperfect seasonal (stochastic) forecasts. The analysis is performed on a case study of irrigated chickpeas in Kibbutz HaZore’a in northern Israel. The results demonstrate that, for the case study area and crop, the optimization with seasonal stochastic forecasts outperforms the deterministic optimization that uses perfect weekly forecast.
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Acknowledgments
This research was made possible by the financial support of the Israeli Water Authority Research Fund. The authors wish to thank Dr. Anna Brook for providing the field measurements.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 145 • Issue 5 • May 2019
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Received: Nov 30, 2017
Accepted: Oct 22, 2018
Published online: Mar 5, 2019
Published in print: May 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Aug 5, 2019
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