Simulation of winter wheat phenology in Beijing area with DSSAT-CERES model

Abstract

The Decision Support for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) model was a worldwide crop model, and crop accurate simulation of phenology was the premise to realize other functional simulations. The objective of this study was to attempt to calibrate the parameters of wheat phenology coefficients, including cultivar and ecotype coefficients, and develop the winter wheat phenology coefficients of Beijing area. To achieve this goal, field surveys of 7 years in wheat growing seasons in Beijing were carried out during 2005–2012. The trail-and-error method and GLUE method were used to calibrate the phenology parameters with 4 growing seasons of 05/06, 06/07, 07/08 and 08/09. Three growing seasons, 09/10, 10/11, and 11/12 were used for validation, and the results showed good agreements between observed date and predicted date. The RMSE of validation data for TS, BT, HD, AN, and MA were 1.63 d, 2.45 d, 3.16 d, 1.83 d, 3.56 d, respectively. Therefore, the calibrated parameters could be used to monitor winter wheat phenology, and could be used for other research as the basis phenology parameters of Beijing area.