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- Title
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF WATER CONSERVATION ON COOLING POTENTIAL OF TWO TURFGRASS SPECIES.
- Authors
Verdi, Amir; Singh, Amninder; Sapkota, Anish; Ghodsi, Somayeh
- Abstract
Canopy temperature provides valuable information for efficient irrigation management and for detecting drought injury in a fast and non-destructive way. It also helps quantify the trade-offs between water conservation and the cooling benefit of the irrigated urban landscape, a critical issue in semiarid inland southern California with limited available water resources. Two adjacent hybrid bermudagrass and tall fescue irrigation trials were conducted to determine canopy temperature changes under a wide range of irrigation treatments from 2017 to 2019 in Riverside, California, USA. The canopy temperature data were also used to develop an empirical crop water stress index (CWSI) for each species. The CWSI values ranged from -0.15 to 0.71 for tall fescue and from -0.28 to 0.54 for hybrid bermudagrass. We observed a moderate correlation between visual rating scores (VR) and CWSI values for tall fescue (r = -0.68) and hybrid bermudagrass (r = -0.61). The fitted linear regression between VR and CWSI data suggested CWSI thresholds close to zero for both species to maintain their acceptable visual quality. The irrigation level consistently showed a significant effect on canopy temperature for both species. On average, a 10% decrease in irrigation application increased the canopy temperature of tall fescue and hybrid bermudagrass by 1.3°C and 0.9°C, respectively. Therefore, deficit irrigation might reduce the cooling benefits of irrigated urban lawns in the semiarid climate of inland southern California.
- Subjects
RIVERSIDE (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; WATER conservation; DROUGHT management; DEFICIT irrigation; IRRIGATION management; TALL fescue; WATER supply; SPECIES; URBAN heat islands
- Publication
Journal of the ASABE, 2024, Vol 67, Issue 3, p749
- ISSN
2769-3295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13031/ja.15845