Diurnal Canopy Photosynthesis Simulator (DCPS)
Al Doherty, Alex Wu (The University of Queensland)
Overview
| Model category | Ordinary Differential Equations / Partial Differential Equations, Process-based model |
|---|---|
| Plant part | Leaf, Canopy |
| Scale | Organ, Field |
| Licence | Open-source |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Programming language | C |
| Format of model inputs and outputs | Environment, canopy attributes, photosynthetic attributes, CO2 diffusion; Daily above-ground biomass increment |
| Species studied | Crop |
| Execution environment | Web-based |
| Modelling environment | Cross-scale modelling framework |
Scientific article
Simulating daily field crop canopy photosynthesis: an integrated software packageAlex Wu,Al Doherty,Graham D Farquhar,Graeme L HammerFunctional Plant Biology, 2018 View paper
Model description
DCaPS is driven by diurnal environmental variables and canopy attributes, and represents the canopy with the sun-shade modelling approach, to calculate diurnal canopy photosynthesis and daily above-ground biomass growth in both C3 and C4 field crops.
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