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A simple method for supplementing long-term weather records in a maize-modelling exercise

 

作者: ClemenceB.S.E.,  

 

期刊: South African Journal of Plant and Soil  (Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期: Volume 8, issue 1  

页码: 27-30

 

ISSN:0257-1862

 

年代: 1991

 

DOI:10.1080/02571862.1991.10634575

 

出版商: Taylor&Francis Group

 

关键词: Crop models;missing data;weather records

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Missing weather data is a very real problem when using daily-incrementing crop growth simulation models. This is especially true in the case of daily air temperature and solar radiation data. The aim of this study was to compare two simple methods of supplementing the input weather record, and to determine whether the estimates could be used with confidence in the case of the CERES-Maize model. Wet and dry day monthly means of daily maximum and minimum temperature and sunshine duration were calculated for four long-term weather stations in Natal. Ordinary monthly means of these elements were also computed. The two sets of means, which were calculated from the most recent 5 years of the weather record, were appended program-matically to daily rainfall data for the preceding 10 years of the weather record, in each case replacing totally the observed daily temperature and sunshine duration values. The weather files thus created were then used as inputs to the CERES-Maize plant-growth model. Yield, flowering date and maturity date estimates so gained were compared with similar estimates over the same period using real temperature and sunshine data. Yield estimates based on supplemented data compared excellently with those using the full weather record, with mean percentage differences for the four sites ranging from 1.23% to 9.34%. Yield estimates based on wet and dry day means for the weather record were slightly better than those derived using ordinary monthly means. This was also true in the case of the flowering and maturity date estimates.

 

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