[AgMIP] Call for papers - Agricultural systems modeling and software: current status and future prospects

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  Call for papers
  for a Thematic Issuewith Environmental Modelling and Software, on:
  Agricultural systems modelling and software: current status and future
  prospects

*Guest Editors:*
Dean Holzworth (CSIRO), Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (DUTH), Sander Janssen =

(WUR), Marcello Donatelli (CRA),
Val Snow (AgResearch), Gerrit Hoogenboom (WSU), Peter Thorburn (CSIRO)

*Environmental Modelling and =

Software:*http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-modelling-and-soft=
ware

*Scope:*
Process-based, agricultural systems models have been in use over the =

last 40 years as tools to evaluate the agronomic, economic and =

environmental performance of farming systems. They are increasingly used =

in applications of both short (i.e. farm performance, crop production =

monitoring) and long term (i.e. climate change impacts, food security, =

environmental policy) impacts. In 2003, a special issue appeared in =

European Journal of Agronomy (Van Ittersum and Donatelli, 2003 =

<#_ENREF_1>)titled 'Modelling Cropping Systems'. Since that special =

issue, the demands facing agricultural models have changed =

significantly. Global food security and climate change are large =

external drivers and the production context is more complicated, largely =

because of the greater demands from the natural resource management =

aspects of agricultural systems. This has driven many relevant =

developments in improving the modelling of these systems, their =

implementation as software programs, their inter-comparison in ensemble =

modelling, and their integration into larger frameworks. This Thematic =

Issue reflects on the drivers of change in agricultural systems in the =

last ten years and how the models have changed as a result. It describes =

these changes from a methodological, technical and application =

perspective, and suggests a research agenda for the future. =

Contributions are sought from process-based modelling groups around the =

world, dealing with agricultural systems in its various aspects.

*Participation and timelines*

The Guest Editors would like to extend an open opportunity to the =

membership of iEMSs and the wider science community (e.g. AgMIP, MACSUR, =

GYGA, GEOGLAM) to participate in the development of the Thematic Issue, =

through either submitting or reviewing papers. Please feel free to =

promote the issue with colleagues unfamiliar with iEMSs and the journal =

EMS, noting for them that the journal has created a strong niche and has =

a rising Impact Factor of over 3.**

If you are interested in participating, please email your contact =

details and intended contribution (title, authors, abstract) to =

crop.modelling.ems at gmail.com <mailto:crop.modelling.ems at gmail.com>by =

*May 17, 2013*. After an initial screening of abstracts, the EMS =

editorial system will be open for receiving full papers by *September =

30, 2013*.

It is also envisaged that an open workshop will be conducted at the 4^th =

AgMIP Annual Global Workshop to be held in New York in October 2013. =

This workshop will debate the alternative futures and upcoming =

challenges for crop models and will form the basis for the position =

paper for this Thematic Issue.

*The three step review process:*

1.Extended abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors and =

recommendations will be made regarding the scope of the full paper; =

extended abstracts should be about 1,000 words plus a strong =

bibliography that indicates the literature that the paper will build upon

2.Full papers will be sent out for external peer review following =

Environmental Modelling & Software policy that, among other things, =

requires at least 3 independent reviews per paper plus valuable =

editorial comment

3.Revised manuscripts will be examined by the Guest Editors and, where =

necessary, the external reviewers. Major revisions go back to reviewers.

*Possible contributions*

=B7Editorial: overview of the Thematic Issue

=B7Main achievements and research agenda for crop modelling (Dean =

Holzworth, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Sander Janssen, Marcello Donatelli, =

Peter Thorburn, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Val Snow, Jeff White; Position =

Paper/Overview Issues (PP/OIP) paper)

=B7Towards a standard for describing crop model interoperability: lessons =

learned from translator development in AgMIP IT: Cheryl Porter, Chris =

Villalobos, Dean Holzworth, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dirk Raes, Rob Knapen, =

Johnny teRoller, Roger Nelson, Naveen Kalra, Meng Zhang, Henri Songoti, =

Steve Welch, Domi Ripoche, Julien Cufi, Sander Janssen, Daniel van =

Kraalingen, Jeff White

=B7The BioMA framework for biophysical modelling in agriculture: Marcello =

Donatelli, Roberto Confalonieri, Simone Bregaglio, Iacopo Cerrani, =

Davide Fanchini, Davide Fumagalli, Marco Acutis, Andrea Rizzoli

=B7Advances in APSIM: Dean Holzworth, Peter Thorburn, John Hargreaves

=B7Advances in DSSAT: Gerrit Hoogenboom, Kenneth Boote, Cheryl Porter, Jim =

Jones, Senthold Asseng, Jeff White

=B7Large scale ensemble of maize production: advances of AgMIP: =

combination of AgMIP IT and AgMIP crop modelling authors

=B7Advances in Stics and Record modelling platform: Dominique Ripoche, =

Julien Cufi, and others...

=B7SIMPLACE as a EU wide component-based tool for simulating climate =

change impacts: Frank Ewert, Andreas Enders ...

=B7An operational system for crop yield forecasting: solutions for =

scaling, performance and visualization from remote sensing to estimates =

within the growing season: Alterra(Hendrik, Daniel), JRC (Stefan, =

Bettina), Vito

=B7INFOCROP ....

=B7A strategic research agenda on crop modelling as an EU wide effort: =

Frank Ewert, Reimund Roetter, with MACSUR partners.

=B7Other potentially interested groups are:

oOpenMI

oTIME

oOMS3 (Olaf David, Jim Ascough, et al)

oJAMS (Peter Krause, Sven Kralisch)

oDAYCENT

oCROPSYST

oORYZA

oINFOCROP

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