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View article: Future projections of European maize yields using AquaCrop with an adaptive growing season
Future projections of European maize yields using AquaCrop with an adaptive growing season Open
Securing maize crop production is essential in our changing world. However, it remains unclear to what extent climate conditions and farmers' practices, such as fertility management and irrigation, can impact future maize crop production i…
View article: Advancing Crop Modeling and Data Assimilation Using AquaCrop v7.2 in NASA's Land Information System Framework v7.5
Advancing Crop Modeling and Data Assimilation Using AquaCrop v7.2 in NASA's Land Information System Framework v7.5 Open
This paper introduces the open-source AquaCrop v7.2 model as a new process-based crop model within NASA's Land Information System Framework (LISF) v7.5. The LISF enables high-performance crop modeling with efficient geospatial data handlin…
View article: On the gap between crop and land surface models: comparing irrigation and other land surface estimates from AquaCrop and Noah-MP over the Po Valley
On the gap between crop and land surface models: comparing irrigation and other land surface estimates from AquaCrop and Noah-MP over the Po Valley Open
Land surface and crop models both simulate irrigation, but they differ in their approaches, primarily because they were originally developed for distinct purposes and scales. Through an example case study in a highly irrigated region, this…
View article: AquaCrop assets and regional applications
AquaCrop assets and regional applications Open
AquaCrop is a relatively simple crop model with a wide range of applications at the point, field, and regional to continental scales. Its four main assets, distributed by FAO (https://www.fao.org/aquacrop/en/), are: (i) the standard progra…
View article: Assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter data into AquaCrop v7 for soil moisture and biomass updating over Europe
Assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter data into AquaCrop v7 for soil moisture and biomass updating over Europe Open
<p>Recent advances in gridded crop modeling and satellite observations help to improve the monitoring of crop growth and water requirements. In this contribution, we use AquaCrop v7 within the NASA Land Information System (i) to prod…
View article: Simulation of alfalfa yield with AquaCrop
Simulation of alfalfa yield with AquaCrop Open
The AquaCrop simulation model, originally designed for annual crops, is expanded here to simulate alfalfa, a perennial forage crop. A new routine was added to the model to mimic the assimilate partitioning between above and below-ground pl…
View article: Assimilation of SMAP surface soil moisture retrievals into the FAO crop growth model AquaCrop v7.
Assimilation of SMAP surface soil moisture retrievals into the FAO crop growth model AquaCrop v7. Open
Recently, the FAO crop model AquaCrop v7.0 has been released as open-source code along with the standard graphical user interface for single field applications, and Linux, Windows, and Mac stand-alone executables for plugin into regional o…
View article: Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe
Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe Open
Global soil water availability is challenged by the effects of climate change and a growing population. On average, 70 % of freshwater extraction is attributed to agriculture, and the demand is increasing. In this study, the effects of cli…
View article: Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe
Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe Open
This repository contains the setup and data related to the peer-reviewed article "Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe" accepted for HESS (https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2021-6…
View article: Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe
Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe Open
This repository contains the setup and data related to the peer-reviewed article "Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe" accepted for HESS (https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2021-6…
View article: Comment on hess-2021-631
Comment on hess-2021-631 Open
Abstract. Global soil water availability is challenged by the effects of climate change and a growing population. On average 70 % of freshwater extraction is attributed to agriculture, and the demand is increasing. In this study, the effec…
View article: Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe
Net irrigation requirement under different climate scenarios using AquaCrop over Europe Open
Global soil water availability is challenged by the effects of climate change and a growing population. On average 70 % of freshwater extraction is attributed to agriculture, and the demand is increasing. In this study, the effects of clim…
View article: Performance analysis of regional AquaCrop (v6.1) biomass and surface soil moisture simulations using satellite and in situ observations
Performance analysis of regional AquaCrop (v6.1) biomass and surface soil moisture simulations using satellite and in situ observations Open
The current intensive use of agricultural land is affecting the land quality and contributes to climate change. Feeding the world's growing population under changing climatic conditions demands a global transition to more sustainable agric…
View article: Comment on gmd-2021-98
Comment on gmd-2021-98 Open
Abstract. The current intensive use of agricultural land is affecting the land quality and contributes to climate change. Feeding the world's growing population under changing climatic conditions demands a global transition to more sustain…
View article: source code and datasets for gmd-2021-98
source code and datasets for gmd-2021-98 Open
This repository contains data and code that was used to run and evaluate a spatially distributed version of the AquaCrop model. A preprint manuscript is currently under review with DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-98. The authors kind…
View article: source code and datasets for gmd-2021-98
source code and datasets for gmd-2021-98 Open
This repository contains data and code that was used to run and evaluate a spatially distributed version of the AquaCrop model. A preprint manuscript is currently under review with DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-98. The authors kind…
View article: Performance analysis of regional AquaCrop (v6.1) biomass and surface soil moisture simulations using satellite and in situ observations
Performance analysis of regional AquaCrop (v6.1) biomass and surface soil moisture simulations using satellite and in situ observations Open
The current intensive use of agricultural land is affecting the land quality and contributes to climate change. Feeding the world’s growing population under changing climatic conditions demands a global transition to more sustainable agric…
View article: Yield Response of an Ensemble of Potato Crop Models to Elevated CO2 in Continental Europe
Yield Response of an Ensemble of Potato Crop Models to Elevated CO2 in Continental Europe Open
A multi-model inter-comparison study was conducted to evaluate the performance of ten potato crop models to accurately predict potato yield in response to elevated CO2 (Ce) when calibrated with ambient CO2 data (Ca). Experimental data from…
View article: Using a regional version of the AquaCrop model to simulate crop biomass and soil moisture: an evaluation with remote sensing data products
Using a regional version of the AquaCrop model to simulate crop biomass and soil moisture: an evaluation with remote sensing data products Open
<p>A shift to more sustainable land cultivation practices is necessary to meet the future crop demand, which faces a vastly growing population and changing climatic conditions. To assess which management practices can be effectively …
View article: From the field-scale Aquacrop model to a regional gridded crop model: initial evaluation over Europe
From the field-scale Aquacrop model to a regional gridded crop model: initial evaluation over Europe Open
<p>The pressure on soil and water resources to support the demand for crop production calls for effective water management at the regional scale and a need for regional crop models.</p><p>In our study, the field-based Aqu…
View article: Water balance components of the potential agricultural grabens along the Rift Valley in northern Ethiopia
Water balance components of the potential agricultural grabens along the Rift Valley in northern Ethiopia Open
Region: Ethiopia's Rift Valley. \nFocus: matching agricultural water demand and supply is a growing policy challenge in drylands. We investigated the water balance components in Raya (3507 km(2)) and Ashenge (80.5 km(2)) grabens. The rainf…
View article: EVALUATION OF AQUACROP PERFORMANCE IN SIMULATING WHEAT AND MAIZE CROPS PRODUCTION IN EGYPT
EVALUATION OF AQUACROP PERFORMANCE IN SIMULATING WHEAT AND MAIZE CROPS PRODUCTION IN EGYPT Open
he objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of the AquaCrop model in simulating the production of wheat and maize crops in old lands in the Nile valley and the Delta region of Egypt, by using fully irrigated system.Multi-yea…
View article: On the Use of Decision-Support Tools for Improved Irrigation Management: AquaCrop-Based Applications
On the Use of Decision-Support Tools for Improved Irrigation Management: AquaCrop-Based Applications Open
Feeding more people with less water is putting efficient irrigation practices worldwide high on the agendas. As a reaction, over the last decades, numerous irrigation decision-support tools have been developed. For several reasons, the gap…
View article: Can the agricultural AquaCrop model simulate water use and yield of a poplar short‐rotation coppice?
Can the agricultural AquaCrop model simulate water use and yield of a poplar short‐rotation coppice? Open
We calibrated and evaluated the agricultural model AquaCrop for the simulation of water use and yield of a short‐rotation coppice (SRC) plantation with poplar ( Populus ) in East Flanders (Belgium) during the second and the third rotation …
View article: A potato model intercomparison across varying climates and productivity levels
A potato model intercomparison across varying climates and productivity levels Open
A potato crop multimodel assessment was conducted to quantify variation among models and evaluate responses to climate change. Nine modeling groups simulated agronomic and climatic responses at low‐input (Chinoli, Bolivia and Gisozi, Burun…
View article: Development and Evaluation of a Parsimonious Agro-hydrological Model to Assess Agricultural Managements Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation
Development and Evaluation of a Parsimonious Agro-hydrological Model to Assess Agricultural Managements Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation Open
While simple crop and hydrological models are limited with respect to the number and accuracy of the processes they incorporate, complex models have high demand for data. Due to these limitations, there is a need for new agro-hydrological …
View article: The AquaCrop-VHM model combination to simulate catchment hydrology in agricultural areas
The AquaCrop-VHM model combination to simulate catchment hydrology in agricultural areas Open
While distributed hydrological models require large datasets and extensive calibration, conceptual hydrological models can predict catchment hydrology with acceptable accuracy using only few inputs and parameters. However, conceptual model…