Meteorological Data for Tanta, Nile Delta, Supporting Irrigation Analysis

Tanta, Egypt, is the focus of this meteorological dataset used to analyze soil salinity dynamics and irrigation strategies. The data, published by author Wenhui Yan under a CC-BY-4.0 license, supports the SWAP model for evaluating water-yield-salinity trade-offs in wheat production. The dataset was last updated on June 4, 2026, and is stored in a 4.9 MB TXT file.

Use Cases

• Calibrating hydrological models like SWAP based on multi-year meteorological data mentioned in the description.
• Evaluating irrigation management scenarios for wheat productivity and salinity mitigation.
• Quantifying uncertainty in crop yield predictions using Monte Carlo perturbations on meteorological inputs.
• Analyzing the impact of early-season irrigation on salt stress during seedling establishment.

Strengths

• Model validation shows simulated crop outputs are robust to daily meteorological variability, with deviations generally below 6%.
• Dataset is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Analysis identifies a specific optimal irrigation threshold of approximately 60 mm for wheat.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific study location in Tanta.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely collected from field experiments and meteorological stations for model calibration.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 02:32:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tanta, Nile Delta, Egypt