Session: Symposium--How Suitable Are Models to Reflect Spatially Variable Field Conditions?
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Division: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling

Title: Symposium--How Suitable Are Models to Reflect Spatially Variable Field Conditions?

Community Leaders: Ole Wendroth and David H. Fleisher
Organizers: Ole Wendroth , Kurt C. Kersebaum and David H. Fleisher
Moderators: Kurt C. Kersebaum and Ole Wendroth
Lead Community Sponsor: Model Applications in Field Research Community
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling
Community Cosponsor: Agroclimatology and Agronomic Modeling Community
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: Field-scale Variability, Remote Sensing, Site-specific Modeling and Site-specific Sampling

Session Description: Over the past decades, agro-ecosystem models have been continuously improved. If the model is appropriately parameterized and calibrated, soil water, temperature and nutrient dynamics and plant growth, water and nutrient uptake, and related processes can be simulated with a high level of accuracy.However, are models able to represent processes site-specifically? What field measurements do we need to take to improve models for site-specific applications. The objective of this symposium is to convey an overview on state-of-the-art in modeling site-specific soil and related biomass development processes, to stimulate ideas and research in the field of Agroclimatology and Agricultural System Models.