Simulating water-limited potato yields across the Netherlands with (SWAP-)WOFOST: Experimentation, model improvement and evaluation

Water availability explains a large part of the spatial and temporal yield variability of ware potato in the Netherlands. Climate change is projected to lead to greater variability in water availability. Therefore, an accurate simulation of crop yield as a function of water availability is of high importance. Many crop models can simulate water-limited potato yields, but as detailed experimental data on drought and oxygen stress are scarce, models are often not well calibrated and evaluated. We set up a large experiment and an on-farm observational trial to calibrate and evaluate the simulatio... Mehr ...