The environment in which crops will be grown in the future will change. Temperatures and CO2 concentrations [CO2] will increase. Also a decline in winter rainfall of up to 30% in 2070 is predicted for south-west Australia. Effects of climate change on cropping systems were simulated with the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM-Nwheat) using transformed historic weather data. Fifty ...

The aim of this study is to assess the interception and transfer to edible part of wet deposited 134Cs and 85Sr to spring oilseed rape and spring wheat and the dependency of the intercepted fraction on the development stage e.g. the total plant biomass. The radionuclides, 134Cs and 85Sr, were deposited at six different development stages using a rainfall simulator. The results showed that there...

This paper describes a new method for parameterizing the conversion of convective cloud liquid water to rainfall (‘‘autoconversion’’) that can be used within large-scale climatemodels, and evaluates the newmethod using the Regional Climate Model, version 3 (RegCM3), coupled to the land surface scheme Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS). The new method is derived from observed distributions of...

The aim of the article was to verify curve number (CN) values given in National Engineering Handbook (NEH) methodology, whether they really correspond all wide-row crops. tested crops were maize, hops and potatoes grown using conventional soil conservation technologies. All these are classified as crops, but very different terms cultivation process. basis for calculation our CN field measuremen...