Testing and evaluating large-scale agricultural simulation models

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 84-96

  Johnson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biophysical simulation model; Complex systems; Model testing and evaluation; Pasture model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CARBON DYNAMICS; COMPUTER POWER; EVALUATING MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; JOURNAL ARTICLES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL TESTING; MODEL TESTING AND EVALUATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PARAMETER VALUES; PASTURE SYSTEMS; POLICY MAKING; PREDICTIVE POWER; SIMULATION MODEL; SOIL WATER; TESTING AND EVALUATION; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84858827015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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