NWHEAT, a detailed model to simulate the growth of wheat under potential, water limited and nitrogen limited conditions

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    General
    Name
    NWHEAT
    Program type
    Crop growth simulation model
    Available since
    Description

    NWHEAT is a SUCROS type of model that is able to simulate the growth of wheat under potential, water limited and nitrogen limited growing conditions. The main simulated processes are: photosynthesis, phenological development, assimilate distribution over the crop organs, soil evaporation, crop transpiration, crop's nitrogen uptake, soil water fluxes, soil organic matter decomposition, soil nitrogen mineralization and other soil nitrogen processes.  

    Scale of application
    field
    Spatial resolution
    ha
    Key outputs

    Total biomass production, yield, evapo-transpiration, total crop nitrogen uptake, soil water balance, soil nitrogen dynamics, decomposition of soil organic matter

    Time horizon
    growth period
    Time step of modeling
    day
    Required to run

    FORTRAN

    Required to develop

    FORTRAN

    Database I/O
    text editor
    Background information
    Applications & Use

    NWHEAT can be used for analyzing crop experiments and fertilizer trials. It has also been applied for climate change impact studies. See the attached zip-file for related articles.

    Author(s)
    Rob Groot, Joost Wolf
    Address
    WUR, Plant Production Systems, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands