A simple interface to the ROSETTA model for predicting hydraulic parameters from soil properties. The ROSETTA API was developed by Dr. Todd Skaggs (USDA-ARS) and links to the work of Zhang and Schaap, (2017). See the related tutorial for additional examples.
Usage
ROSETTA(
x,
vars,
v = c("1", "2", "3"),
include.sd = FALSE,
chunkSize = 10000,
conf = NULL
)Arguments
- x
a
data.frameof required soil properties, may contain other columns, see details- vars
character vector of column names in
xcontaining relevant soil property values, see details- v
ROSETTA model version number: '1', '2', or '3', see details and references.
- include.sd
logical, include bootstrap standard deviation for estimated parameters
- chunkSize
number of records per API call
- conf
configuration passed to
httr::POST()such asverbose().
Details
Soil properties supplied in x must be described, in order, via vars argument. The API does not use the names but column ordering must follow: sand, silt, clay, bulk density, volumetric water content at 33kPa (1/3 bar), and volumetric water content at 1500kPa (15 bar).
The ROSETTA model relies on a minimum of 3 soil properties, with increasing (expected) accuracy as additional properties are included:
required, sand, silt, clay: USDA soil texture separates (percentages) that sum to 100 percent
optional, bulk density (any moisture basis): mass per volume after accounting for >2mm fragments, units of gm/cm3
optional, volumetric water content at 33 kPa: roughly "field capacity" for most soils, units of cm^3/cm^3
optional, volumetric water content at 1500 kPa: roughly "permanent wilting point" for most plants, units of cm^3/cm^3
The Rosetta pedotransfer function predicts five parameters for the van Genuchten model of unsaturated soil hydraulic properties
theta_r : residual volumetric water content
theta_s : saturated volumetric water content
log10(alpha) : retention shape parameter
[log10(1/cm)]log10(npar) : retention shape parameter
log10(ksat) : saturated hydraulic conductivity
[log10(cm/d)]
Column names not specified in vars are retained in the output.
Three versions of the ROSETTA model are available, selected using "v = 1", "v = 2", or "v = 3".
version 1 - Schaap, M.G., F.J. Leij, and M.Th. van Genuchten. 2001. ROSETTA: a computer program for estimating soil hydraulic parameters with hierarchical pedotransfer functions. Journal of Hydrology 251(3-4): 163-176. doi: doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(01)00466-8 .
version 2 - Schaap, M.G., A. Nemes, and M.T. van Genuchten. 2004. Comparison of Models for Indirect Estimation of Water Retention and Available Water in Surface Soils. Vadose Zone Journal 3(4): 1455-1463. doi: doi:10.2136/vzj2004.1455 .
version 3 - Zhang, Y., and M.G. Schaap. 2017. Weighted recalibration of the Rosetta pedotransfer model with improved estimates of hydraulic parameter distributions and summary statistics (Rosetta3). Journal of Hydrology 547: 39-53. doi: doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.004 .
References
Consider using the interactive version, with copy/paste functionality at: https://www.handbook60.org/rosetta.
Rosetta Model Home Page: https://www.ars.usda.gov/pacific-west-area/riverside-ca/agricultural-water-efficiency-and-salinity-research-unit/docs/model/rosetta-model/.
Python ROSETTA model: https://pypi.org/project/rosetta-soil/.
Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap. 2017. Weighted recalibration of the Rosetta pedotransfer model with improved estimates of hydraulic parameter distributions and summary statistics (Rosetta3). Journal of Hydrology. 547: 39-53. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.004 .
Kosugi, K. 1999. General model for unsaturated hydraulic conductivity for soils with lognormal pore-size distribution. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63:270-277.
Mualem, Y. 1976. A new model predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media. Water Resour. Res. 12:513-522.
Schaap, M.G. and W. Bouten. 1996. Modeling water retention curves of sandy soils using neural networks. Water Resour. Res. 32:3033-3040.
Schaap, M.G., Leij F.J. and van Genuchten M.Th. 1998. Neural network analysis for hierarchical prediction of soil water retention and saturated hydraulic conductivity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:847-855.
Schaap, M.G., and F.J. Leij, 1998. Database Related Accuracy and Uncertainty of Pedotransfer Functions, Soil Science 163:765-779.
Schaap, M.G., F.J. Leij and M. Th. van Genuchten. 1999. A bootstrap-neural network approach to predict soil hydraulic parameters. In: van Genuchten, M.Th., F.J. Leij, and L. Wu (eds), Proc. Int. Workshop, Characterization and Measurements of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media, pp 1237-1250, University of California, Riverside, CA.
Schaap, M.G., F.J. Leij, 1999, Improved prediction of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity with the Mualem-van Genuchten, Submitted to Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.
van Genuchten, M.Th. 1980. A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Sci. Am. J. 44:892-898.
Schaap, M.G., F.J. Leij, and M.Th. van Genuchten. 2001. ROSETTA: a computer program for estimating soil hydraulic parameters with hierarchical pedotransfer functions. Journal of Hydrology 251(3-4): 163-176. doi: doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(01)00466-8 .
Schaap, M.G., A. Nemes, and M.T. van Genuchten. 2004. Comparison of Models for Indirect Estimation of Water Retention and Available Water in Surface Soils. Vadose Zone Journal 3(4): 1455-1463. doi: doi:10.2136/vzj2004.1455 .
Zhang, Y., and M.G. Schaap. 2017. Weighted recalibration of the Rosetta pedotransfer model with improved estimates of hydraulic parameter distributions and summary statistics (Rosetta3). Journal of Hydrology 547: 39-53. doi: doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.004 .