Hi: just a thought, maybe you can emulate a no-till situation in the standard
DSSAT model by altering your soil bulk density.  No-till means no ploughing
right? It might serve some purpose.

Amor V.M. Ines
Doctoral Candidate
Asian Institute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand

Quoting Brian Baer <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hello,
>
> The official version of CERES (and I assume the rest of the DSSAT
> models)
> have no routines to simulate the effects of tillage on soil water.
>
> Frederic Dadoun was  a student here working with Dr. Richie who, for
> his
> PhD, worked out routines for adding tillage to CERES version 2, you
> may
> want to look at that thesis.
>
> Brian Baer
>
> At 12:58 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Colleagues,
> >
> >We are trying to run DSSATon No-Till maize plots. How do we setup our
> >FILEX for no-till?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Mark Sunohara
>
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