Research Team: Souleymane Fall, Raymon Shange, Fan Wu
Insitution: Tuskegee University
Start Date: August 1, 2022 | End Date: July 31, 2025
Research Theme: Water Prediction Systems and Workflows, Community Water Modeling, Hydroinformatics, Forecast Design and Community Resilience
The ability of the National Water Model (NWM) to accurately forecast short-term dynamics of streamflow could be critical for the development of proactive agricultural management plans and decisions including planting time, irrigation scheduling, nutrient and pesticide management, and other activities that aim at optimizing crop production and ensuring sustainable management of agricultural lands and water related hazards. The project goal is to utilize, customize, and translate NextGen NWM forecast into useful products and decision support system to enhance agricultural applications for rural and limited resources farmers, as well as improve NextGen NWM modeling performance with rural agricultural watersheds. Project products and decision support systems is expected to help optimize agricultural practices for rural communities while outreach and extension activities will help develop their adaptive capacity for managing water-related issues.