Overview

Purpose of using the model

A number of problems concerning hydrological and/or thermal processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere system can be elucidated using the model. Both applied and basic scientific problems have been solved including:

      simulation of regulating factors for biological and chemical processes in the soil

      simulation of coupled biological and abiotic processes

      simulation of coupled atmosphere and soil processes

      assessment of the importance of different factors

      identification of gaps in our present knowledge

      formulation of new hypotheses

      generalisation of results to new soils, climates and time periods

      prediction of the influence of management e.g. soil heat extraction, mulching, drainage, irrigation and plant husbandry