. The WOFOST simulation model is a tool for analysing the growth and production of field crops under a wide range of weather and soil conditions. Such an analysis is important first to assess to what extent crop production is limited by the factors of light, moisture and macro‐nutrients, and second to estimate what improvements are possible. The theoretical concept of a production situation, as modelled by WOFOST, is explained, as is the hierarchy of potential production and water‐limited and nutrient‐limited production situations in the analysis. The organization of the computer files in the model, the structure of the FORTRAN source program and the available standard sets of data are described briefly.
Abstract. Methane dynamics in a water-saturated soil layel' with gas-transporting roots is modeled with a weighed set of single-root model systems. Each model system consists of a soil cylinder with a gas-transporting root along its axis or a soil sphere with a gas-transporting root at its centel'. The weights associated with a different cylinder or sphere radius were deduced from root architecture. Methane dynamics in each single-root model system are calculated using a single-root model fi'om the previous paper. From this full model a simplified model was deduced consisting of an oxygen-saturated and an oxygen-unsaturated model system. An even more simplified model was deduced, called the homogeneous model. In this model the concentrations are homogeneous in the whole soil layer. Simulation results of the simplified model are closer to th• simulation results of the full model than the simulation results of the homogeneous model. The overall effect of the simplifications on simulated methane emissions are small, though the underlying processes are affected more severely, depending on simulation time and parameters. At high root densities and at large times, under stationary conditions, root density is proportional to simulated methane tluxes, provided that carbon availability is proportional to root density. Sensitivity analysis shows that lack of knowledge on root gas-transport is an important limitation for the predictability of methane fluxes via the processes at the kinetic level.
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