LUCI_PTFs.BrooksCorey.pyt.xml

<metadata xml:lang="en"><Esri><CreaDate>20210629</CreaDate><CreaTime>15152200</CreaTime><ArcGISFormat>1.0</ArcGISFormat><SyncOnce>TRUE</SyncOnce><ModDate>20210924</ModDate><ModTime>8225700</ModTime><scaleRange><minScale>150000000</minScale><maxScale>5000</maxScale></scaleRange><ArcGISProfile>ItemDescription</ArcGISProfile></Esri><tool name="BrooksCorey" displayname="02 Calculate Brooks-Corey parameters and plot SMRC" toolboxalias="LUCI_PTF" xmlns=""><arcToolboxHelpPath>c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.6\Help\gp</arcToolboxHelpPath><parameters><param name="Output_folder" displayname="Output folder" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="Folder" expression="Output_folder"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specify the path and folder name where output from this tool should be stored.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Input_shapefile" displayname="Input soil shapefile" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="Feature Class" expression="Input_shapefile"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specify the path and filename of the input soil shapefile. Soil shapefile can be polygon or point vector which includes required soil properties of the selected PTFs&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;and a required field named "LUCIname" which contains the soils' name/identifier. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="PTF_of_choice" displayname="PTFs of choice" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="Cosby et al. (1984) - Sand and Clay | Cosby et al. (1984) - Sand, Silt and Clay | Rawls and Brakensiek (1985) | Campbell and Shiozawa (1992) | Saxton et al. (1986) | Saxton and Rawls (2006)"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Select the PTFs of interest from the dropdown list.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Here are the current PTFs options and their required inputs:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;(1) Temperate climate &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Cosby et al. (1984) (Equation with Sand, Silt, Clay): Sand, Silt, Clay&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Cosby et al. (1984) (Equation with Silt, Clay): Silt, Clay&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Rawls and Brakensiek (1985): &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Sand, Clay, θs&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Campbell and Shiozava (1992): &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Silt, Clay, BD, θs&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Saxton et al. (1986): &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Sand, Clay, θs&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;- Saxton and Rawls (2006): Sand, Clay, Organic Matter&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Pressure_heads_BC" displayname="Specify pressures to calculate water content using Brooks-Corey model (space delimited)" type="Optional" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="{Pressure_heads_BC}"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;In the default, the output&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;shapefile&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;will contain soil moisture retention/hydraulic conductivity at -1kPa, -3kPa, -10kPa, -33kPa, -100kPa, -200kPa, -1000kPa and -1500kPa. These will get written to the output shapefile.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Using this option, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;user can customise the output to get soil moisture/hydraulic conductivity at the pressure of interest&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, in addition to &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the default pressures&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN STYLE="font-size:8pt"&gt;. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This information will get written to a &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;csv&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;file within the output folder.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="FieldCapacity" displayname="Value of pressure (kPa) at field capacity" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="FieldCapacity"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specify pressure for field capacity. Field capacity is commonly between -10kPa to -100kPa. The default value is &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;33kPa.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="SIC" displayname="Value of pressure (kPa) at water stress-induced stomata closure" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="SIC"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specify pressure for water stress-induced stomata closure. The default value is &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;100kPa.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="PWP" displayname="Value of pressure (kPa) at permanent wilting point" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="PWP"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specify pressure for permanent wilting point. The default value is &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;1500kPa.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Carbon_content" displayname="If the selected PTF requires OC or OM, select which type is present in your dataset:" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="Organic carbon | Organic matter"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Specifying soil carbon information in the input data.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Conversion_factor" displayname="If the selected PTF requires OC or OM, enter the appropriate conversion factor to change OM to OC (or vice-versa):" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="Double" expression="Conversion_factor"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P STYLE="text-align:Justify;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You do not need to use this function if your dataset has the same type of soil carbon as required by the PTFs. If the selected PTFs require organic matter (OM) but the input data only has organic carbon (OC) or inversely, this function can be used to convert OM to OC and inversely. LUCI_PTFs gives default conversion factors (the Van Bemmelen factors): 1.724 to convert OC to OM and 0.58 to convert OM to OC. However, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;user can customise the factor by typing &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;a converstion factor &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;in&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;to&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;this field. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Pressure_units_plot" displayname="Pressure units for plotting purposes" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="kPa | cm | m"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Selecting the pressure unit for plotting soil moisture result. LUCI_PTFs has thee pressure unit options: kPa, cm and m.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param><param name="Plot_axis" displayname="Create water content and pressure plots with water content on the X-axis or Y-axis:" type="Required" direction="Input" datatype="String" expression="Y-axis | X-axis"><dialogReference>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Choose which axis water content will be plotted on.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</dialogReference></param></parameters><summary>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This tool provides &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;6&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;PTFs to estimate Brooks and Corey model parameters and &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;soil moisture&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;pressure relationship. To select the PTFs of interest,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; the&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; user can use the guidelines given in the paper “Guidelines and a supporting toolbox for parameterising key soil hydraulic properties in hydrological studies and broader integrated modelling” (Dang et al., 2021).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</summary></tool><dataIdInfo><idCitation><resTitle>02 Calculate Brooks-Corey parameters and plot SMRC</resTitle></idCitation><idAbs>&lt;DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This tool provides &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;6&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;PTFs to estimate Brooks and Corey model parameters and &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;soil moisture&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;pressure relationship. 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