Environmental modeling to support agriculture and water management decision making

环境模型提供了一系列可用于农业决策的产出，如作物发育阶段、作物产量、作物质量、蒸散速率和作物病原体风险的估计。此外，这些模型还可以估计出控制防洪、灌溉、径流和侵蚀风险缓解系统运行的水资源管理者感兴趣的参数。该研究计划的长期目标是通过与潜在用户组织的合作研究，开发和测试具有农业和水管理效用的模型，以确定他们的需求，并以促进最终模型采用的方式测试模型的性能。

Environmental models provide a range of output that can be used for agricultural decision-making such as estimates of crop development stage, crop yield, crop quality, evapotranspiration rates and crop pathogen risk. In addition, the models can estimate parameters of interest to water managers who control the operation of systems for flood control, irrigation, runoff and erosion risk mitigation. The long-term objective of the research program is to develop and test models with utility for agriculture and water management through collaborative research with potential user organizations to both identify their needs and to test model performance in a manner that fosters eventual model adoption for operational use.