1. General Model Information
Name: MOTOR - Modular description of Organic matter TurnOveR.
Acronym: MOTOR
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: biogeochemistry
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: ordinary differential equations
Main application:
Keywords: organic matter, soil, decomposition, carbon dynamics, nitrogen dynamics
Contact:
Dr. A.P. Whitmore.
Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), , P.O.Box 129, 9750 AC Haren (Gr.), THE NETHERLANDS.
Phone: +31.50.5337303
Fax: +31.50.5337291
email: a.p.whitmore@ab.dlo.nl
Author(s):
Abstract:
Purpose of the model:
Model parentage: Bradbury et. al., Jenkinson and Rayner model.
Source of the AbstractCAMASE Register of Agro-ecosystems Models
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): PC. Contract necessary: Costs: : Floppy disk. Comments:
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s): Microsoft FORTRAN.
II.3 Manuals:
II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
Rate variables: User specified. Output data: Rate constant, clay content.
State variables: Residues microbial biomass, non-protected organic matter, protected organic matter.
III.2.1 Input
Decomposition of: residues, microbial biomass and non-protected organic matter, rates of desorption and adsorbtion of organic matter.
III.2.2 Output
Rate constant, clay content.
Time interval of simulation: Any.
IV. References
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VI. Additional remarks
Parentage: Bradbury et. al., Jenkinson and Rayner model.
Last review of this document by: Sep 25 1997
Status of the document:
last modified by
Joachim Benz Mon Jul 2 18:31:37 CEST 2007