NDLI: Weekly Weather Generation for a Nitrogen Turnover Model

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Author	Dailey, A. G. Smith, J. U. Whitmore, A. P.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Three methods of deriving weather for use in a nitrogen decision support system with a weekly time-step are described and evaluated. The simplest of these is simply the mean (M) of the three weather variables: Rainfall (R), evapotranspiration (ET) and temperature (T). To represent the variability of weather, many sets of generated data are needed but this is not possible with mean values. Two methods of generating rainfall are described: a fully stochastic simulator (FS) and a method based on partitioning the distribution into sections (SM). Temperature, T, and evapotranspiration ET are represented in both generators by sinusoidal functions. The amount of R is modelled as an empirical distribution, rain persistence as a Markov chain. All three means of deriving weather were compared directly with actual weather from the historical record and in use with the SUNDIAL DSS. The mean values of R, ET and T were reproduced satisfactorily (r > 0.99) by both FS and SM, but variability less accurately (r > 0.80 for the standard deviations of T, r > 0.97 for R and ET). The mean values of several components of the nitrogen cycle sim ulated with SUNDIAL were generally reproduced well for both methods of weather generation, but less accurately for mean weather. For leaching, the root mean square errors were 2.6, 2.3 and 11.4 kg/ha for FS, SM and M, respectively. The sectioning method generally gave a poor estimate of variation, which was significantly underestimated for the majority of variables, in the case of leaching by a factor of three. Where variance is important, FS is preferred; weather data generated by this method may be used with confidence for risk assessments of denitrification and crop N uptake.
Starting Page	257
Ending Page	266
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13851314
Journal	Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Volume Number	73
Issue Number	2-3
e-ISSN	15730867
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Decision Support System Nitrogen fertiliser Stochastic model Weather generator Soil Science & Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science

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