Table 1.
Soil physicochemical properties of the experimental field (mean of two years).
Table 2.
Recorded growing degree day (GDD) and the days number to reach out each development stage of sesame under two irrigation regimes during the growing seasons of 2015–2016 (mean of two years).
Table 3.
Sesame crop parameters affected by deficit irrigation, used in AquaCrop model under Mashhad conditions.
Fig 1.
The average of minimum temperature, maximum temperature and precipitation during the sesame growing season for the observed period (1985–2015).
Fig 2.
Observed and predicted of the mean of (A) Tmax, (B) Tmin, and (C) rainfall under three scenarios of climate change for Mashhad region.
Fig 3.
Observed and projected mean of temperature and rainfall under three scenarios of climate change for Mashhad region.
Fig 4.
The relative comparison of the projected (averaged of three scenarios for 2021–2051) and observed (1985–2015) of Tmax, Tmin and rainfall.
Fig 5.
The beginning day and the length of sesame phenological stages under two irrigation levels and three climate scenarios simulated for 2021–2051 and 2015 (simulated and observed) based on FAO stages.
Table 4.
Mean comparisons of observed and estimated length of sesame phenological stages under two irrigation levels for 2021–2051.
Table 5.
Statistical indices to evaluate the precision of the Excel developed phenology model in estimation of sesame phenological stages under future climate change.
Fig 6.
Observed sesame canopy cover evolution and critical development stages during growing season of 2015.
Table 6.
Goodness of fit indices for sesame canopy cover (CC) and biomass (B) simulations under two irrigation levels.
Fig 7.
Sesame canopy cover evolution (lines) and accumulative biomass (dots) during growing season (127 days) under three scenarios of projected climate change (2021–2051).
Table 7.
Observed and simulated biomass, grain yield and water productivity of sesame under the three scenarios of climate change.