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.
General
Name
NWHEAT
Program type
Crop growth simulation model
Available since
Description
Specifications
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
Software requirements
Required to run
FORTRAN
Required to develop
FORTRAN
Database I/O
text editor
Download documents
Background information
NWHEAT_articles.zip
(5.24 MB)
Examples
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.
Contact
Address
WUR, Plant Production Systems, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
Email
joost.wolf@wur.nl
Date | Version | Title |
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2001.08.29 | 1.0 | Original version |