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Subject: Modelling irrigation and growth of trees   
Posted: 5/5/2017 Viewed: 12594 times
Hello,

I am trying to model eucalyptus and pine tress in my basin under the MABIA method. Since these are not available in the default crop library of WEAP, I added them as crop under the 'Tropical Fruits and Trees' category. I have changed the max. height of eucalyptus and pine trees to 30.5 and 40.0 m respectively and the max. root depth to 10.0 and 2.0m. As these trees are not harvested in one single year, I find decided to bring the 'total stage length days' as 365. However, this results in complete drain of the river. Is there a better way to represent the growth of these trees in the model?

Thanks,
Prajna
Ms. Stephanie Galaitsi

Subject: Re: Modelling irrigation and growth of trees   
Posted: 5/12/2017 Viewed: 12487 times
Hi Prajna,

We suggest reviewing and possibly adjusting these parameters and seeing if it helps:

1. Soil water capacity
2. Infiltration rate
3. Percolation rate
1. Kcb
2. root depth

Is the vegetation is draining the river or something else like soil physical properties?
Topic "Modelling irrigation and growth of trees"