“…Water balance simulation models applied to vineyards (Lebon et al, 2003;Celette et al, 2010) are used in many studies and particularly in Mediterranean conditions: i) to provide a diagnosis tool on vineyard water stress (Pellegrino et al, 2006), ii) to analyse the effect of intercropping between vine rows (Celette et al, 2010;Ripoche et al, 2010) or iii) to study irrigation needs (Gaudin and Gary, 2012;Roux et al, 2014). The main model output is the dynamics of a normalized water stress index based on soil water content and called…”