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Crop yield response to water - Cra

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figure 17ClimateInput data defining the environment in which the crop develops.Weather data collected at field or from agro-meteorological stations• Minimum and maximum air temperature<strong>Crop</strong>• ET o• Rainfall• CO 2concentrationsMauna Loa Observa<strong>to</strong>ry(Hawaii)ET o calcula<strong>to</strong>rCalibrated and validated crop characteristics from data bankAdjust cultivar specific and less conservative parametersSoilManagementSoil profile characteristics• Field observations• Default values in data bank• Pedo transfer functions• SalinityCharacteristics of ground<strong>water</strong> table• Depth below soil surface• Salinitysoil textureField management practices• Soil fertility level• Practices that affect the soil <strong>water</strong> balanceIrrigation management practices• Irrigation method• Application depth and time of irrigation events• Salinity of the irrigation <strong>water</strong>Climate dataFor each day of the simulation period, Aqua<strong>Crop</strong> requires minimum (T n ) and maximum (T x ) airtemperature, rainfall, and reference evapotranspiration (ET o ) as a measure of the evaporativedemand of the atmosphere. Further, the yearly mean atmospheric CO 2 concentration has <strong>to</strong>be known.For consistency and as the standard, ET o is <strong>to</strong> be calculated using the Penman-Monteithequation (Allen et al., 1998), from full daily weather data sets. The full data set consists ofradiation, T x and T n , wind run or speed, and humidity, all daily. An ET o calcula<strong>to</strong>r, a free publicdomain software, is available from the FAO website for the calculation (FAO, 2009). Thecalcula<strong>to</strong>r accepts weather data given in a wide variety of units. In the absence of full dailydata set, the calcula<strong>to</strong>r can also estimate ET o from 10-day or monthly mean data, and makeapproximations when one or several kinds of the required weather data are missing. Thismakes it possible for a user <strong>to</strong> run rough simulations even when the weather data are minimal.42crop <strong>yield</strong> <strong>response</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>water</strong>

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