Martin et al. (2026) Corrigendum to “Estimating irrigation consumptive use for the conterminous United States: coupling satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration with a national hydrologic model” [J. Hydrol. 662 (2025) 133909]

Identification

• Journal: Journal of Hydrology
• Year: 2026
• Date: 2026-03-01
• Authors: Donald J. Martin, Richard G. Niswonger, R. Steve Regan, Justin L. Huntington, Thomas Ott, Charles Morton, G. B. Senay, MacKenzie Friedrichs, Forrest Melton, Jonathan V. Haynes, Wesley R. Henson, A. Read, Yanhua Xie, Tyler J. Lark, Michael Rush
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135179

Research Groups

• GSI Environmental, Irvine, CA, USA
• U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA (and previously affiliated)
• Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
• U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, USA
• KBR, Inc. Under Contract to the U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
• NASA, Moffett Field, CA, USA
• University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
• EKI Environment & Water, Inc., San Deigo, CA, USA
• Neptune and Company, Inc., Lakewood, CO, USA

Short Summary

This document is a corrigendum to the original paper "Estimating irrigation consumptive use for the conterminous United States: coupling satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration with a national hydrologic model," providing necessary corrections to author affiliations, definitions, references, numerical values, and figure/table captions.

Objective

• To correct errors and provide clarifications in the previously published article "Estimating irrigation consumptive use for the conterminous United States: coupling satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration with a national hydrologic model."

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Conterminous United States (implied from original paper title).
• Temporal Scale: Growing season; references the national drought of 2012.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: The original paper's title mentions "a national hydrologic model." The corrigendum itself does not use models.
• Data sources: The original paper's title mentions "satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration." The corrigendum refers to "data release Henson et al. (2025)."

Main Results

(This section lists the corrections made to the original paper's results and content, not the original results themselves.) - Corrected definition of consumptive use: "For this study, consumptive use is assumed to equal the amount of crop actual evapotranspiration (ETa) that is sourced from irrigation water." - Corrected statement regarding irrigated lands: CONUS total irrigated lands decreased by 10 % during the national drought of 2012 due to water supply constraints, while crop consumptive use for the CONUS was greatest during this time. - Corrected irrigation consumptive use range: 0-37 cm (previously 0-35.6 cm). - Corrected bias: 4.1 % (previously 2.7 %). - Corrected root mean squared error (Section 3.3): 48.6 cm (previously 35.9 cm). - Corrected root mean square error (Section 5): 21.1 (previously 12.6). - Corrected percent bias (Section 5): 36 (previously 0.2). - Clarified phrases regarding general and local conveyance efficiency. - Corrected abbreviations: "CV" for Climate variations, "CU" for consumptive use, and "PPTeff" for effective precipitation. - Updated references: Senay et al. 2022, Hobbins et al., 2016, USGS and USDA, 2013, Haynes et al. (2023). - Added sentence to Table 1 caption: "The values in Table 1 are calculated from data release Henson et al. (2025)." - Corrected Figure 3 caption: "Labeled agricultural regions in part A are locations where field-level data are summarized and compared to model estimates." - Corrected Figure 4 caption: "Growing season results for soil-moisture storage, consumptive use, and effective precipitation during the growing season for Central California (A-C), Western Colorado (D-F), and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (G-I), USA." - Corrected y-axis and caption in Figure 5: "consumptive use" instead of "consumption". - Corrected Appendix A first sentence: "The Supplementary Material document contains 2 supplemental figures developed from data release Henson et al. (2025)."

Contributions

This corrigendum provides essential corrections and clarifications to the original article, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the published research on estimating irrigation consumptive use.

Funding

• Not mentioned in the corrigendum.

Citation

@article{Martin2026Corrigendum,
  author = {Martin, Donald J. and Niswonger, Richard G. and Regan, R. Steve and Huntington, Justin L. and Ott, Thomas and Morton, Charles and Senay, G. B. and Friedrichs, MacKenzie and Melton, Forrest and Haynes, Jonathan V. and Henson, Wesley R. and Read, A. and Xie, Yanhua and Lark, Tyler J. and Rush, Michael},
  title = {Corrigendum to “Estimating irrigation consumptive use for the conterminous United States: coupling satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration with a national hydrologic model” [J. Hydrol. 662 (2025) 133909]},
  journal = {Journal of Hydrology},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135179},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135179}
}