The applicability of AquaCrop model was calibrated and verified based on the experiment of winter
wheat-summer maize rotation under mulching from October 2013 to June 2016. The effects of climate change on the
growth,yield,and water utilization of summer maize were simulated,and the effects of mulching on impact of cli-
mate change were analyzed. The results showed that the average annual temperature in Guanzhong (Wugong,
Baoji,and Xi’an) increased while the rainfall decreased during the growing seasons. The temperature distributed
from high in Baoji to low in Wugong and intermediate in Xi’an,and the rate of temperature increase was 0.20,
0.12℃·10a
-1
,and 0.09℃·10a
-1
. The decreases of rainfall in Xi’an,Baoji,and Wugong were 3.59,3.23 mm,
and 2.64 mm 10a
-1
. The AquaCrop model had good applicability in Guanzhong and simulated the yield,water utili-zation,and dynamics of crop growth of wheat and maize under mulching. The root mean square error (RMSE) be-
tween simulated and measured canopy coverage values ranged from 1.1% to 15.3%,the RMSE of biomass values
ranged from 0.626 t·hm
-2
to 2.540 t·hm
-2
,and the RMSE of soil water storage values ranged from 12.6 mm to
47.4 mm.The simulation results showed that temperature was rising since the 1960’s.The growth of summer maize
during the growing seasons in Wugong,Baoji,and Xi’an showed a decreasing trend with the reduction as high as
2.76,4.82 d·10a
-1
,and 5.94 d·10a
-1
,especially,since the 1980’s. The yield with mulching was higher than
that with control,and its coefficient of variation was small under different precipitation year types. Also,the mulching
helped obtaining the grain yield and it promoted yield compared with the control under drought climate. Additionally,
the mulching effectively reduced the evaporation of soil surface layer during maize seedling stage and conserved more
rainfall in soil,which is needed for maize growth in later stage (an average reduction of 7.6 mm). Although mulching
increased soil water consumption,it effectively improved water use efficiency of maize by conserving soil water and
stabilizing crop yield. The mulching on summer maize in Guanzhong can adapt to climate change effectively and deal
with drought climate to a certain extent,it has a good effect of increasing production and stabilizing production.
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