Filippo Tobia Imbesi Monorchio
Estimation of water requirements in agriculture at a basin scale: the case of the Aude basin.
Rel. Stefania Tamea. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Environmental And Land Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
The Mediterranean area, a renowned climate change "hotspot," faces increasing water scarcity that poses a significant threat to its vital agricultural sector. As a contribution to the TALANOA-WATER project, a European-funded PRIMA project, this thesis aims to quantify the future evolution of agricultural water requirements and assess climate-driven impacts on crop yields in the Aude basin, a representative Mediterranean watershed in southern France. To achieve this, an enhanced R-based agronomic model based on the SIMETAW framework was developed, validated, and applied. The model simulates the daily soil water balance for key regional crops—including wine grapes, cereals, and fruit orchards—across 33 distinct pedoclimatic zones, driven by an ensemble of downscaled climate projections for the RCP 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 scenarios.
Crucially, the framework assesses crop performance across a range of water availability scenarios, from rainfed to fully irrigated conditions, and incorporates regulated deficit irrigation strategies for quality-oriented crops like PGI and PDO wine grapes
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