1. General Model Information
Name: NCSWAP
Acronym: NCSWAP
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: biogeochemistry
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: compartment model
Main application:
Keywords: soil-crop-water biosystem, Nitrogen, ammonium, nitrate, soil transformation, decomposition,mineralization, immobilization, nitrification, denitrification
Contact:
John A. E. Molina
Department of Soil, Water and Climate
439 Borlaug Hall, University of Minnesota
St Paul, MN 55108
USA
Phone: 612-625-6259
Fax: 612-625-2208
e-Mail:GVB6082@vx.cis.umn.edu
J. A. E. Molina, D. R. Linden, R. Richards
Author(s):
J. A. E. Molina, D. R. Linden, R. Richards
Abstract:
NCSWAP is a simulation model of the soil-crop-water biosystem. The model
integrates water flow dynamics crop growth, N and N transformations, tillage
and residue effects, soil temperature, and solute transport. It can be used by
researchers for prediction of nitrification and denitrification, N
mineralization and immobilization, soil moisture, plant available NO3-N and
NH4-N, N leaching, plant uptake of N and Water, crop yield, root growth, and N
fertilizer dynamics.
NCSWAP uses the crop as a biological integrator of the exogenous (managerial
and meteorological) and soil status variables. It compares crop yield from a
reference yield which is modified to account for the influence of water,
nitrogen, and temperature. The reference crop yield is defined as controllable
inputs by the kinetics of plant mass growth and nitrogen percentage, for a
given set of air temperatures and a specific field site. NCSWAP simulates
water carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the soil profile through the concept of
water, nitrogen, and temperature stress, expressed as reduction factor
functions.
Author of the abstract:
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II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s):
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s):
II.3 Manuals:
II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
Daily air min and max temperature; daily precipitation; daily
III.2.1 Input
Daily air min and max temperature; daily precipitation; dailyirrigation; weekly average soil temperature; weekly pan evaporation; soil bulk density; soilhydraulic conductivity at saturation; water content at field capacity, at saturation, and at waterstress point; initial content of nitrate-N and ammonium-N for each soil horizon; initial level andC/N ratio for pool I and II; nitrification rate; date and amount of inorganic and organic Napplications; tillage events; irrigations; parameters defining the mass increase and N percentageof the reference crop; days of planting, emergence, maturity, and harvest; plant population; rootgrowth and root mass partition in the soil profile; and dry matter shoot to root ratio. Dry mass, nitrogen accumulation, nitrogen management effects, nitrate-N
III.2.2 Output
Dry mass, nitrogen accumulation, nitrogen management effects, nitrate-Nconcentration in soil water for different application rates, computed net N mineralization of soilorganic matter, computed yield, cumulative nitrate leached, simulated N dynamics
Spatial Scale: Field: Site specific; does not integrate over landscape
IV. References
D. E. Clay, C. E. Clapp, D. R. Linden, and J. A. E. Molina.1985 Nitrogen-tillage-residue management: Observed and simulatedinteractions among soil depth, nitrogen mineralization, and corn yield. Plant and Soil 84: 67-77.
D. E. Clay, C. E. Clapp,J. A. E. Molina, and D. R. Linden. 1989 Nitrogen-tillage-residuemanagement: Simulating soil and plant behavior by the model NCSWAP.Soil Science Vol 147, No. 5, pp 319-325.
L. Grimm, J. A. E. Molina, C. Rosen, and S. Haiti. 1993 Simulation ofNitrogen and water dynamics in an irrigated potato field. Department of Soil Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Soil Series 137
Lengnick, L.L, R.H. Fox. 1994 Simulation by NCSWAP of Seasonal Nitrogen Dynamics in Corn .1. Soil Nitrate. Agronomy Journal 86: 1, 167-175 Lengnick,L.L, R.H. Fox. 1994 Simulation by NCSWAP of Seasonal Nitrogen Dynamics in Corn .2. Corn Growth and Yield. Agronomy Journal 86: 1, 176-182
Jabro, J.D., J.M. Jemison, Jr., L.L. Lengnick, R.H. Fox, and D.D. Fritton. 1993. Fieldvalidation and comparison of LEACHM and NCSWAP models for predicting nitrateleaching. Transactions of the ASAE 36(6):1651-1657.
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VI. Additional remarks
NCSWAP can be used to evaluate the soil-crop-water biosystem under avariety of different climate conditions and different crops.
Last review of this document by: John A. E. Molina and T. Gabele: 17. 09. 1997 -
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Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:46 CEST 2002