The AquaCrop model
摘要
The response of crop yield to variations in the water supply has been a topic of great interest in agricultural sciences for a long time. A major contribution to the quantification of such response was the development of empirical water production functions in the 1960s and 1970s, which related yield to crop consumptive use as linear functions. Such information was fitted by Stewart (Stewart and Hagan, 1973) to a linear model which was then used by Doorenbos and Kassam to compile all the information available on various crops into a FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) publication, the Irrigation & Drainage no. 33 paper (ID33; Doorenbos and Kassam, 1979).