Section outline

  • General

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    Objectives 


    •Formalize a scientific problem, design a system, and provide an algorithm to solve and implementing it into computer language

    •Answering to a scientific question by building a model
    –3-5 references papers and more … 
    – dataset (same as local scale)
    –R
    –Tutoring


    Projects 


    Crop model
    •crop model of winter oilseed rape in order to calculate dry matter produced

    Pollen dispersal
    •Pollen dispersal for assessing safety distance between 2 crops

    Water balance
    •model to calculate the daily dynamic of the soil water content in the context of a crop management. This modeling will enable to assess the need of irrigation (when and how much water to bring)

    Carbon storage
    •Model to estimate the dynamics of soil organic carbon in a crop field

    Nitrogen cycle in soil and nitrate leaching
    •Model to estimate mineral nitrate in soil. This model will be used to evaluate nitrate leaching

    First steps 

    –Read the bibliography
    –Do not code, do not code, do not code…
    –Understand the main processes
    •Determination of the hypothesis
    •Simplify
    •Processes involved
    –Equations and formalisms
    –Parameters
    –Input data
    –Output data
    •Space and time domain
    •2D/3D
    •Time ?
    UML diagram

    Second Steps

    •Correction of your general modelling scheme
    •Code
    –Update your scheme if needed
    •Provide results
    •Discuss
    –The results
    –The Hypothesis
    •Perspectives and improvements


    • Announcements Forum
    • Assignments/Reporting

      –Structure/Scheme/diagram of your models
      –Hypothesis
      –Inputs variables
      –Processes involved
      •Equations & simplifications
      •Parameters
      –Outputs variables

      Feed back on the 10th December

    • Final Assignment

      •A corrected version of the first part of your report
      •Plus
      –Results
      –Discussion of your results & Hypothesis
      –What could have been improved
      •Code in a specific file

  • Online Class

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  • Carbon

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  • Crop Model

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  • Nitrogen

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  • Water Budget

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  • Pollen

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  • Courses slides

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