Journal
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
Volume 228, Issue -, Pages 265-275Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.07.003
Keywords
Crop lodging; Wind simulation; Environmental modelling; UKCP09 weather generator
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A methodology to estimate wind and rain effects on the four main growth crops in the United Kingdom is presented. The method is based on simulated weather scenarios acting on synthetic plants over a period of thirty years. The environmental data is generated with the UKCP09 Weather Generator considering future climate scenarios whereas plants are modelled as simple oscillators characterised by their mass, stiffness and damping. The joint probability of occurrence of wind and rain are estimated together with the conditions in which lodging would occur. The paper shows that the dynamic response of plants varies with season being the first three months of the year the most critical whilst the plants' performances define crop failure velocities ranging between 4ms(-1) and 23 ms(-1) and associated failure rates of 50% and 5% per unitary velocity. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available