Which benefits in the use of a modeling platform : the VSoil example

In the environmental community the need for coupling the models and the associated knowledges emerged recently. The development of a coupling tool or of a modeling platform is mainly driven by the necessity to reate models accounting for multiple processes and to take into account the feed back between these processes. Models focusing on a restricted number of processes exist and thus the coupling of these numerical tools appeared as an efficient and rapid mean to fill up the identified gaps. Several tools have been proposed : OMS3 (David et al. 2013) ; CSDMS framework (Peckham et al. 2013) ; the Open MI project developed within the frame of European Community (Open MI, 2011). However, what…

Assessing the potentialities of innovating cropping systems to reduce pesticide losses to groundwater through a network of long term experimental sites and quantitative modelling

EAGESTADAGROSUP; Assessing the potentialities of innovating cropping systems to reduce pesticide losses to groundwater through a network of long term experimental sites and quantitative modelling. 5. International Ecosummit “Ecological Sustainability : Engineering Change”

Modelling the fate of pesticides in innovative cropping systems disigned to reduce the use of pesticides

EAAgroSupINRAGESTAD; The objective of this work was to assess and compare the ability of three pesticide fate models (MACRO, PEARL and PRZM) to simulate the concentration in leachates of pesticides applied in different conventional and innovative cropping systems. The test of the models was based on measurements of water flows and pesticides concentrations done in two French experimental sites. The results showed that MACRO was the most efficient model to simulate the amounts of percolated water and the concentrations of pesticides used in the various cropping systems

A network of long term experimental sites to include quantitative modelling of pesticides losses in the multi-criteria assessment of innovating cropping systems

On the need to establish an international soil modelling consortium

The Soil Virtuel modeling platform

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