Performance evaluation of border irrigation models for South-East Australia: Part 1, advance and recession characteristics

This is the first of two papers which examines six models of border irrigation, namely Jobling-Turner, Strelkoff, Walker, Jaynes, Schmitz and Ross for their suitability to predict advance and recession times under a range of field conditions. The field experiments were monitored at five locations in south-east Australia, and a total of 67 irrigation events were carried out over a period of 4 years. The models were applied to all the events and it was concluded that the Walker model (hydrodynamic and zero-inertia approaches) is the best model for predicting advance times and the Strelkoff model the best for predicting recession times, for the field conditions encountered in this study.