Evaluation of JULES-crop performance against site observations of irrigated maize from Mead, Nebraska

Williams, Karina; Gornall, Jemma; Harper, Anna; Wiltshire, Andy; Hemming, Debbie; Quaife, Tristan; Arkebauer, Tim; Scoby, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1291-2017

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Model evaluation paper

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27 Mar 2017

Model evaluation paper |

| 27 Mar 2017

Evaluation of JULES-crop performance against site observations of irrigated maize from Mead, Nebraska

Karina Williams, Jemma Gornall, Anna Harper, Andy Wiltshire, Debbie Hemming, Tristan Quaife, Tim Arkebauer, and David Scoby

Data sets

AmeriFlux Site Information (formerly at: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/) AmeriFlux collaboration http://fluxnet.fluxdata.org/

Model code and software

JULES land-surface model JULES collaboration https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/jules/

PySellersTwoStream T. Quaife https://github.com/tquaife/pySellersTwoStream

Short summary

This study looks in detail at how well the crop model within the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), a community land-surface model, is able to simulate irrigated maize in Nebraska. We use the results to point to future priorities for model development and describe how our methodology can be adapted to set up model runs for other sites and crop varieties.