Warrick Dawes

Warrick R. Dawes is an American surface-water hydrologist at CSIRO.

Career

In 1999 Dawes and his colleagues have used topographic map called Topog-IRM on mountain ash to predict its growth and water balance. Within 23-year time, the simulation model overpredicted streamflow by 6%.[1] In 2001 Dawes along with L. Zhang and G.R. Walker have proved that there have been a 42 millimetres (1.7 in) absolute error between modeled and measured evapotranspiration.[2] The same year, he used WAVES system to analyze the measurements as well as to simulate the effect of water management on growth of crops at the Luancheng Agricultural Ecosystem Station in the North China Plain. While using it, he discovered that mulching does save up to 80 millimetres (3.1 in) of water during wheat growth season.[3]

References

  1. ↑ R. A. Vertessy; T. J. Hatton; R. G. Benyon; W. R. Dawes (1995). "Long-term growth and water balance predictions for a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forest catchment subject to clear-felling and regeneration" (PDF). Tree Physiology. 16 (1): 221–232.
  2. ↑ L. Zhang; W. R. Dawes; G. R. Walker (March 2001). "Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale". Water Resources Research. 37 (3): 701–708. Bibcode:2001WRR....37..701Z. doi:10.1029/2000WR900325.
  3. ↑ Huixiao Wang; W.R. Dawes; Changming Liu (June 2001). "Improving water use efficiency of irrigated crops in the North China Plain — measurements and modeling". Agricultural Water Management. Elsevier. 48 (2): 151–167.


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