Journal
EARTH INTERACTIONS
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1175/2012EI000452.1
Keywords
Agro-IBIS; Soybean (Glycine max); Energy flux; Carbon flux
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- CNPq
- CAPES
- FAPERGS
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With the growing demands for food and biofuel, new technologies and crop management systems are being used to increase productivity and minimize land-use impacts. In this context, estimates of productivity and the impacts of agriculture management practices are becoming increasingly important. Numerical models that describe the soil-surface-atmosphere interactions for natural and agricultural ecosystems are important tools to explore the impacts of these agronomical technologies and their environmental impacts. However, these models need to be validated by considering the different soil and environmental conditions before they can be widely applied. The process-based terrestrial agricultural version of the Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) model (Agro-IBIS) has only been calibrated and validated for North American sites. Here, the authors validate the Agro-IBIS results for an experimental soybean site in southern Brazil. At this site, soybean was grown under two different management systems: no tillage (NT) and conventional tillage (CT). The model results were evaluated against micrometeorological, soil condition, and biomass observations made during the soybean growing season. The leaf area index (LAI) was underestimated, approaching the values obtained in the CT crop system, with higher error in the leaf senescence period. The model shows higher skill for daily averages and the diurnal cycle of the energy balance components in the period of high LAI. The soil temperature and moisture were robustly simulated, although the latter is best correlated with the observations made at the CT field. The ecosystem respiration is highly under-estimated, causing an overestimation of the cumulative net ecosystem exchange (NEE), particularly at the end of the crop cycle.
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