ROSETTA {soilDB}R Documentation

Query USDA-ARS ROSETTA Model API

Description

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.frame of required soil properties, may contain other columns, see details

vars

character vector of column names in x containing 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 as verbose().

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:

The Rosetta pedotransfer function predicts five parameters for the van Genuchten model of unsaturated soil hydraulic properties

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".

Author(s)

D.E. Beaudette, Todd Skaggs (ARS), Richard Reid

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.


[Package soilDB version 2.8.2 Index]