Abstract

UNIMI.CropML_WL is a software component implementing several approaches to the modellization of water limited crop development and growth. Models are implemented using a fine granularity, and they are also used in composite structures which can used as simulation models in applications.

This component is an extension of UNIMI.CropML component, that is publicly available inclusive of Software Development Kit, help file and code documentation file.

For this reason, this help file does not include any documentation of the approaches implemented in CropML for modelling potential crop development and growth, but it contains a full description of the algorithms used only for water limitations.

Being an extension, the CropML_WL has a dependency to the UNIMI.CropML.dll and to the UNIMI.CropML.Interfaces.dll, so for using in custom applications, the user must handle these two libraries.

These are the crop models currently implemented in CropML_WL:

CropML_WL-WOFOST .(Van Keulen and Wolf, 1986; Boogaard et al.,1998) is a member of the family of crop growth models developed in Wageningen by the school of C.T. de Wit. It follows the hierarchical distinction between potential and limited production and share similar crop growth submodels, with light interception and CO2 assimilation as growth driving processes and crop phenological development as growth controlling process.

CropML-CropSyst (Stöckle et al., 1992, 2003) is a cropping system model including generic crop simulator which allows for simulating both determined and perennial species. This component implements the plant related part of the original CropSyst model, version 3.X

CropML-WARM (Water Accounting Rice Model, (Confalonieri et al., 2009a; Confalonieri et al., 2009b) is a model for the simulation of growth and development of paddy rice crops. The model accounts for all the main processes which characterize this peculiar system. Simulations can be performed with daily or hourly time step.

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