VALIDATING SOIL PHOSPHORUS ROUTINES

Phosphorus transfer from agricultural soils to surface waters is an important environmental issue. Commonly used models like SWAT have not always been updated to reflect current understanding of soil P transformations and transfer to runoff. The objective of this study was to validate the ability of routines in both SWAT2000 and SWAT2005 to initialize the quantity of P in different soil P pools (and thus soil total P) and simulate changes in the simulated solution P pool. Based on data from 40 published studies, results show that currently published equations to estimate the soil PSP parameter and SWAT's method of summing four soil P pools underpredict soil total P. An underprediction of soil total could result in underprediction of P loss in runoff with eroded sediment. Conversely, the proposed alternative for estimating soil total P, which includes a new equation to estimate the soil PSP parameter and includes the solution P pool when summing soil P pools, resulted in accurate predictions of soil total P for 484 topsoil samples from 35 published studies. Results also show that both the SWAT routines and the routines proposed by a previous study for simulating changes in soil P were able to accurately predict long‐term changes in soil solution P. However, routines in both SWAT2000 and SWAT2005 may underpredict solution P for several weeks after P is added to soils. This could result in underprediction of dissolved inorganic P loss in runoff soon after a P application to soils. The routines proposed by the previous study would not result in similar underpredictions.

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