Geochemical characteristics, mechanisms and suitability for sustainable municipal and agricultural water supply of confined groundwater in central North China Plain

H Yang, Y Xiao, Q Hao, L Wang, Y Zhang, K Liu, Y Zhu… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Confined groundwater is a prior water resource for urban and rural water supply in arid and
semiarid regions. A total of 53 groundwater samples were collected from a typical region of …

Dynamics and biophysical controls of nocturnal water loss in a winter wheat-summer maize rotation cropland: a multi-temporal scale analysis

X Guo, J Xiao, T Zha, G Shang, P Liu, C Jin… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nocturnal water loss (NWL), the evapotranspiration minus dew at night, has been identified
to play a significant role in the surface water and energy balance. However, few studies …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating and improving soil water and salinity stress response functions for root water uptake

T Wang, Y Xu, Q Zuo, J Shi, X Wu, L Liu… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many functions have been proposed to describe the response of root water uptake to water
and/or salinity stresses. In practice, choosing a reliable stress response function is …

Effects of irrigation and nitrogen fertilization management on crop yields and long-term dynamic characteristics of water and nitrogen transport at deep soil depths

J Xu, X Wang, Y Ding, Q Mu, H Cai, C Ma… - Soil and Tillage …, 2020 - Elsevier
Appropriate irrigation and nitrogen (N) management practices should be implemented to
obtain high grain yields while considering the influence of water and N leaching on …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of soil water and nitrate within the vadose zone simulated by the WHCNS model calibrated based on deep learning

Q Guo, W Wu - Agricultural Water Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Excessive application of water and nitrogen fertilizer during farmland management practices
leads to serious groundwater nitrate pollution. A field experiment was conducted during the …

Irrigation Optimization via Crop Water Use in Saline Coastal Areas—A Field Data Analysis in China's Yellow River Delta

J Li, D Liu, Y Zhang, Z Liu, L Wang, H Gong, Y Xu… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Freshwater resources are becoming increasingly scarce in coastal areas, limiting crop
productivity in coastal farmlands. Although the characteristic of crop water use is an …

Biophysical controls of dew formation in a typical cropland and its relationship to drought in the North China Plain

X Guo, Y Zhang, T Zha, G Shang, C Jin, Y Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dew, as an important contribution of non-rainfall water (NRW), is found to be an important
hydrological component for ecosystem water stress alleviation and further ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying natural recharge characteristics of shallow aquifers in groundwater overexploitation zone of North China

X Chen, K Zhang, L Chao, Z Liu, Y Du, Q Xu - Water Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
To improve the accuracy of hydrological simulations in the groundwater overexploitation
zone of North China, it is necessary to study the characteristics of shallow aquifer recharge …

A field-validated surrogate crop model for predicting root-zone moisture and salt content in regions with shallow groundwater

Z Liu, Z Huo, C Wang, L Zhang, X Wang… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Optimum management of irrigated crops in regions with shallow saline groundwater
requires a careful balance between application of irrigation water and upward movement of …

Soil water dynamics and deep percolation in an agricultural experimental area of the North China Plain over the past 50 years: Based on field monitoring and …

Y Wang, Y He, Z Li, J Qu, G Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The unregulated irrigation systems used in the late 20th century have led to increasingly
severe deep percolation (DP) in the agricultural irrigation areas of the North China Plain …