Analysis of the Water Balance in a Block of Seven Drainage Lysimeters under Field Conditions
Received: 31 July 2024 | Revised: 5 September 2024 | Accepted: 5 September 2024 | Online: 22 October 2024
Corresponding author: Robinson Pena Murillo
Abstract
Water Balance (WB) allows for assessing the deficit or excess of water. For this purpose, drainage lysimeters have a mechanism to collect and quantify the amount of water that infiltrates through the soil profile, thus evaluating crop evapotranspiration. This study describes the design, construction, and calibration of a block of 7 drainage lysimeters. The lysimeters were designed with a width of 1.97 m, length of 2.49 m, and depth varying from 0.60 m to 1.10 m. For construction, four sequential layers of soil, each 0.2 m thick, were extracted. The concrete resistance of the walls and floors was 210 kg cm-2, and rhizotrons were installed on the inner wall of five of the lysimeters. Calibration included evaluating compaction in the first 3 layers, averaging 2.11, 5.18, and 7.91 kg cm-2 respectively. Infiltration ranged from 5.6 to 10.2 mm h-1. The moisture retention curve allowed determining the irrigation volume to reach Field Capacity (FC), plus an additional percentage of FC volume to produce drainage.
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construction, calibration, field capacity, compaction, drainage, infiltration, evapotranspirationDownloads
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