Abstract
The results of an intercomparison study with eight simulation models are systematically evaluated. All the models describe soil-water-plant growth dynamics. The approaches models take to parametrize are compared: plant physiological processes, including the nitrogen dynamics; water fluxes in the soil, plant and atmosphere; water uptake and crop yield relationships. Analysing the parametrization and calibration yields the most critical set of the processes and parameters, which largely determine predictive capabilities of a model in practical field situations: dry-matter partitioning, leaf expansion and leaf area dynamics, senescence, root dynamics and soil hydraulic characteristics.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | Modelling and parameterization of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; a comparison of potato growth models |
| Editors | P. Kabat, B. Marshall, B.J. van den Broek, J. Vos, H. van Keulen |
| Place of Publication | Wageningen |
| Publisher | Wageningen Pers |
| Pages | 439-501 |
| Publication status | Published - 1995 |