POTATOS, a simple potato crop growth model

General

Name

POTATOS

Program type

Crop growth simulation model

Available since

Fri, 12/31/1999 - 12:00

Description

POTATOS is a simple crop growth model of the LINTUL-type. POTATOS has been used for calculating the impacts of climatic change on potato production over Europe. The main simulated processes are: photosynthesis, phenological development, assimilate allocation to crop organs, soil evaporation, crop transpiration, soil water balance.

Specifications

Scale of application

field

Spatial resolution

Key outputs

Total biomass, yield, evapo-transpiration, soil water balance

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

POTATOS_model_articles.zip (1.78 MB)

Examples

Applications & Use

POTATOS has been applied for climate change impact studies over Europe. See the attached articles

Contact

Author(s)

Joost Wolf

Address

WUR, Plant Production Systems, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands

joost.wolf@wur.nl

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Date	Version	Title
2002.12.11	1.0	Original version