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Application of CalSIMETAW model to the SSJ region
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ssj-calsimetaw

Application of the Prescriptive CalSIMETAW / CUPS inspired calculation of ET, using Kc tables and ETo.

Lead: Quinn Hart, Morteza Orang, Tariq Kadir

This method provides estimations of ET based on DWR's published Kc (Crop coefficient) curves for the various crops grown within the Bay Delta Service Area. CalSIMETAW is a more complete water balance model. In effort we are only including the ET calculation portion. This includes soil evaporation and plant evapotranspiration. Extensive information on ET calculation, including model formulation can be found in the Cups Users' Guide.

Unlike most other ET estimations, the CalSIMETAW estimates are prescriptive. That means primarily that ET is estimated by predicting what each crop category would require rather than measure that directly. This means the raster maps of ET estimations are based on measured reference Evapotranspiration (ETo), combined with crop category maps.

Methodology

The CalSIMETAW program provides daily ET estimations for regions in California. The CalSIMETAW model is designed primarily for regional planning and uses regions based on DWR's Detailed Analysis units and counties, known as DAUCOs. For the Delta, there are 6 DAUCOs.

Within each region, CalSIMETAW has estimates of Kc values for each of the DWR crop categories. These values are supplied daily. Each region also has estimates of the total area for each category for each DAUCO.

In order to provide comparisons of the CalSIMETAW product with the other ET estimations in this project, the CalSIMETAW estimations need to be combined with higher resolution data to provide the ET estimates. This includes Spatial CIMIS for estimations of ETo, and a landcover map, to determine where the crop categories reside.

The process is:

Estimated Yearly ET August Raster ET
Yearly ET August Raster

Results

We calculate our ET results in a few ways. Regardless of the method however, the output will be the same, the method provides monthy estimates of ET based on Spatial CIMIS ETo, CalSIMETAW ppt and the Kc curves supplied by DWR's CalSIMETAW program.

One important component of CalSIMETAW is that it modifies it's Kc and ET based on precipication events that wet the surface. We will also include monthly predictions of ET, that do not include this contribution. This can be done using CalSIMETAW's iKc term. This allows for

ETo is taken directly from the Weather Repository. The CalSIMETAW DAUCOs include precipitation events.

LandIQ Based

Data Descriptionn Monthly
ET Average Monthly ET results/wy2015/monthly
iET Average Monthly Crop (no PPT) ET results/wy2015/monthly

DWR has contracted to produce the LandIQ Landuse dataset. This dataset provides a Level_2 classification that is nearly identical to the CalSIMETAW crop categories. We used these polygons to calculate prescriptive ET at the field scale.

commodity level_2 commodity level_2
Alfalfa Alfalfa Pistachio Pistachios
Almonds Almonds Potatoes Potatoes
Cherries Cherries Rice Rice
CitrusSubtrop Citrus Riparian Riparian
Corn Corn Riparian Floating Vegetation
Cucurbits Cucurbit Safflower Safflower
FALLOW Fallow OtherDeciduous Semi-agricultural/ROW
FALLOW Upland Herbaceous Sunflower Sunflower
Pasture Wet herbaceous/sub irrigated pasture Tomato Tomatoes
Olives Olives TruckCrops Truck Crops
OtherDeciduous Other Deciduous Bushberries Bush Berries
Pasture Pasture UrbanLandscape Urban
Pasture Forage Grass Vineyard Vineyards
Turffarm Turf Walnuts Walnuts
Pears Pears WaterSurface Water

Alternative Vegetation

We could test the regional sensitivity of the CalSIMETAW method by comparing the results from a number of alternative landuse types. Two additional Land-cover types are available.

NASA Landcover Based

NASA has provided the SSJ team with a vector data layer of landcover that includes Cropland Data Layer (CDL) crop types. We will use this vector map to calculate ET. For this effort, we will use vector processing of for the calculation. We will also use the larger CalSIMETAW 4km grid for weather inputs.

Data Daily Monthly
ET results/nasa/wy2015/daily results/nasa/wy2015/monthly
Kc results/nasa/wy2015/daily results/nasa/wy2015/monthly

CDL Landcover Based

The USDA Cropland Data Layer is a 30m raster based crop data type. Unlike the NASA product, the methodology does not try to make uniform fields, but estimates each pixel seperately. The data is provided in a raster form. For this method, we utilized Google's Earth Engine Platform, as a test of it's utility.

Data Daily Monthly
ET results/cdl/wy2015/daily results/cdl/wy2015/monthly
Kc results/cdl/wy2015/daily results/cdl/wy2015/monthly