Nitrous oxide emissions from cropland: A procedure for calibrating the daycent biogeochemical model using inverse modelling

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rafique, Rashad ^a,d   Fienen, Michael N ^b   Parkin, Timothy B ^c   Anex, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic calibration; DayCent model; Inverse modelling; Nitrous oxide; Parameter Estimation (PEST); Sensitivity analysis; Validation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC CARBON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; DAYCENT; INVERSE MODELLING; NITROUS OXIDE; VALIDATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

NITROUS OXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NITROUS OXIDE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOIL EMISSION;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROPLAND; DAYCENT MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84881333518     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1677-z     Document Type: Article

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