Call for papers
for a Thematic Issuewith Environmental Modelling and Software, on:
Agricultural systems modelling and software: current status and future
prospects
*Guest Editors:*
Dean Holzworth (CSIRO), Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (DUTH), Sander Janssen
(WUR), Marcello Donatelli (CRA),
Val Snow (AgResearch), Gerrit Hoogenboom (WSU), Peter Thorburn (CSIRO)
*Environmental Modelling and
Software:*http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-modelling-and-software
*Scope:*
Process-based, agricultural systems models have been in use over the
last 40 years as tools to evaluate the agronomic, economic and
environmental performance of farming systems. They are increasingly used
in applications of both short (i.e. farm performance, crop production
monitoring) and long term (i.e. climate change impacts, food security,
environmental policy) impacts. In 2003, a special issue appeared in
European Journal of Agronomy (Van Ittersum and Donatelli, 2003
<#_ENREF_1>)titled 'Modelling Cropping Systems'. Since that special
issue, the demands facing agricultural models have changed
significantly. Global food security and climate change are large
external drivers and the production context is more complicated, largely
because of the greater demands from the natural resource management
aspects of agricultural systems. This has driven many relevant
developments in improving the modelling of these systems, their
implementation as software programs, their inter-comparison in ensemble
modelling, and their integration into larger frameworks. This Thematic
Issue reflects on the drivers of change in agricultural systems in the
last ten years and how the models have changed as a result. It describes
these changes from a methodological, technical and application
perspective, and suggests a research agenda for the future.
Contributions are sought from process-based modelling groups around the
world, dealing with agricultural systems in its various aspects.
*Participation and timelines*
The Guest Editors would like to extend an open opportunity to the
membership of iEMSs and the wider science community (e.g. AgMIP, MACSUR,
GYGA, GEOGLAM) to participate in the development of the Thematic Issue,
through either submitting or reviewing papers. Please feel free to
promote the issue with colleagues unfamiliar with iEMSs and the journal
EMS, noting for them that the journal has created a strong niche and has
a rising Impact Factor of over 3.**
If you are interested in participating, please email your contact
details and intended contribution (title, authors, abstract) to
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*May 17, 2013*. After an initial screening of abstracts, the EMS
editorial system will be open for receiving full papers by *September
30, 2013*.
It is also envisaged that an open workshop will be conducted at the 4^th
AgMIP Annual Global Workshop to be held in New York in October 2013.
This workshop will debate the alternative futures and upcoming
challenges for crop models and will form the basis for the position
paper for this Thematic Issue.
*The three step review process:*
1.Extended abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors and
recommendations will be made regarding the scope of the full paper;
extended abstracts should be about 1,000 words plus a strong
bibliography that indicates the literature that the paper will build upon
2.Full papers will be sent out for external peer review following
Environmental Modelling & Software policy that, among other things,
requires at least 3 independent reviews per paper plus valuable
editorial comment
3.Revised manuscripts will be examined by the Guest Editors and, where
necessary, the external reviewers. Major revisions go back to reviewers.
*Possible contributions*
·Editorial: overview of the Thematic Issue
·Main achievements and research agenda for crop modelling (Dean
Holzworth, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Sander Janssen, Marcello Donatelli,
Peter Thorburn, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Val Snow, Jeff White; Position
Paper/Overview Issues (PP/OIP) paper)
·Towards a standard for describing crop model interoperability: lessons
learned from translator development in AgMIP IT: Cheryl Porter, Chris
Villalobos, Dean Holzworth, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dirk Raes, Rob Knapen,
Johnny teRoller, Roger Nelson, Naveen Kalra, Meng Zhang, Henri Songoti,
Steve Welch, Domi Ripoche, Julien Cufi, Sander Janssen, Daniel van
Kraalingen, Jeff White
·The BioMA framework for biophysical modelling in agriculture: Marcello
Donatelli, Roberto Confalonieri, Simone Bregaglio, Iacopo Cerrani,
Davide Fanchini, Davide Fumagalli, Marco Acutis, Andrea Rizzoli
·Advances in APSIM: Dean Holzworth, Peter Thorburn, John Hargreaves
·Advances in DSSAT: Gerrit Hoogenboom, Kenneth Boote, Cheryl Porter, Jim
Jones, Senthold Asseng, Jeff White
·Large scale ensemble of maize production: advances of AgMIP:
combination of AgMIP IT and AgMIP crop modelling authors
·Advances in Stics and Record modelling platform: Dominique Ripoche,
Julien Cufi, and others...
·SIMPLACE as a EU wide component-based tool for simulating climate
change impacts: Frank Ewert, Andreas Enders ...
·An operational system for crop yield forecasting: solutions for
scaling, performance and visualization from remote sensing to estimates
within the growing season: Alterra(Hendrik, Daniel), JRC (Stefan,
Bettina), Vito
·INFOCROP ....
·A strategic research agenda on crop modelling as an EU wide effort:
Frank Ewert, Reimund Roetter, with MACSUR partners.
·Other potentially interested groups are:
oOpenMI
oTIME
oOMS3 (Olaf David, Jim Ascough, et al)
oJAMS (Peter Krause, Sven Kralisch)
oDAYCENT
oCROPSYST
oORYZA
oINFOCROP
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Gerrit Hoogenboom
Director, AgWeatherNet, and
Professor of Agrometeorology
Washington State University
24106 North Bunn Road
Prosser, Washington 99350-8694, USA
1-509-786-9371; Fax: 1-509-786-9370
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