Training Workshop: Using Climate Information and Crop Productivity Models for Climate Adaptation Strategies and Planning in Agriculture
This repository contains all the necessary information and material for the workshop. The best way to use this data is to download the whole repository by clicking on the green button on the right corner and click "download zip". In this way, all the slides and data will be downloaded in your computer. Otherwise, follow the link for each of the session in the table below.
In case you modify by mistake the DATA folder of AquaCrop, you can download again the default files from here
| Time | Slides |
|---|---|
| 14:00-16:00 | Workshop overview and instructions |
Day 1: Introduction to climate data and AquaCrop
During Day one of the workshop, we will be learning about basic and more advanced topics regarding climate data and crop modeling to then dive deeper into the usage of AquaCrop.
| Time | Slides |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcoming remarks and agenda |
| 9:00-10:45 | Climate Module 1: Climate Data and climate Science |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Climate Module 1: Introduction to CAVA and downloading climate data |
| 11:30-13:00 | Crop Module 1: Basic and advanced usage of AquaCrop |
| Time | Slides |
|---|---|
| 8:30-10:30 | Crop Module 2: AquaCrop input requirements and Creating climate files |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-13:00 | Crop Module 3: Customising AquaCrop modules |
Day 3: Understanding AquaCrop results, using AquaCrop plug-in for heavy workloads and AquaCropPlotter
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Planned
| Time | Slides |
|---|---|
| 8:30-10:30 | Crop Module 4: AquaCrop results and calibration and validation |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Crop Module 5: AquaCrop plug-in for heavy workloads |
| 12:00-13:00 | Crop Module 5: AquaCropPlotter for visualizing AquaCrop results |
Delivered (Tandojam)
| Time | Slides |
|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Creating climate files: Recap |
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-13:00 | Crop module 5: AquaCrop crop files and AquaCrop plug-in |
This training session will be enterely interactive. However, instructions to follow an additional exercise can be found below:
The presentation delivered during this follow-up training can be found here The files for parameterizing AquaCrop can be found here
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Follow this video for AquaCrop installation instruction and brief overview of the main steps
file for daily simulations AquaCrop plugin. Paste it into the SIMUL folder of AquaCrop plug-in.