Assessment of the AquaCrop model for use in simulation of irrigated winter wheat canopy cover, biomass, and grain yield in the North China plain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jin, Xiu Liang ^a,b,c   Feng, Hai Kuan ^b,c   Zhu, Xin Kai ^a   Li, Zhen Hai ^b,c   Song, Sen Nan ^a,b,c   Song, Xiao Yu ^b,c   Yang, Guijun ^b,c   Xu, Xin Gang ^b,c   Guo, Wen Shan ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^c NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AQUACROP MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS YIELD; CALIBRATION; CANOPY COVER; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAIN YIELD; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT WATER USE; PLANTING TIME; SIMULATION; SUMMER; VALIDATION STUDY; WINTER; WINTER WHEAT; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHEAT;

RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SEEDS; SOIL; TRITICUM; WATER;

EID: 84900325665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086938     Document Type: Article

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