Purpose: development and testing of a method for determining the size and moisture characteristics of moisture contours formed in the southern chernozems of the steppe type of soil formation during drip irrigation.
Materials and methods. Experimental studies were carried out on light, medium and heavy loamy medium thick ordinary and southern chernozems. The vertical sections of humidification zones with a system of in-contour moisture isopleths were considered. As indicators determining the contour parameters, the following are considered: the content of physical clay in the moistened soil layer, the soil density and its lowest moisture capacity.
Results. In the process of studying the experimental vertical sections of soil drip moistening zones, dependences characterizing the existing functional relationships between the contour geometric parameters and the characteristics of soil, phytosoil and technological conditions of their formation were determined. On the basis of the obtained experimental dependences, a method for calculating the contours linear dimensions and graphically constructing their outlines has been developed. The proposed method for contour predicting was tested on actual data on their sizes and moisture distribution in the inner-contour space, obtained by other researchers experimentally. Comparison of the experimental and predicted contours of drip moistening testifies to their qualitative similarity both in terms of the external outline and in terms of the location of isopleths with different levels of soil moisture inside the wetted zone. The calculated value of the irrigation rate differs from the actual one by 2.2 %.
Conclusions. The proposed method for predicting the sizes of moisture contours and intra-contour isopleths, formed in chernozems of the steppe type of soil formation, was developed to the level of calculations using the author's computer program. An example of approbation of the proposed method indicates its acceptability for use in the crops drip irrigation design and operational practice.
doi: 10.31774/2222-1816-2021-11-2-24-38
drip irrigation, moisture contour, steppe chernozems, moisture isolines, soil characteristics, moisture contours parameters
Shkura V. N., Shtanko A. S. Predicting drip irrigation contours of chernozems of the steppe type of soil formation // Scientific Journal of Russian Scientific Research Institute of Land Improvement Problems [Electronic resource]. 2021. Vol. 11, no. 2. P. 24–38. URL: http:www.rosniipm-sm.ru/en/article?n=1193 (date of access: 19.05.2021). DOI: 10.31774/2222-1816-2021-11-2-24-38.
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