The soil-crop models STICS and AqYield predict yield and soil water content for irrigated crops equally well with limited data

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 206, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-68

  Constantin, Julie ^a   Willaume, Magali ^a   Murgue, Clément ^a   Lacroix, Bernard ^b   Therond, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b ARVALIS Institut du Végétal   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; Maize; Model evaluation; Sorghum; Sunflower; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DICOTYLEDON; GRASS; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; MODEL VALIDATION; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET; YIELD RESPONSE;

FRANCE;

HELIANTHUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84924420427     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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