Cited by 4,465Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural Productivity and Crop ImprovementIrrigation Practices and Water Management

The DSSAT cropping system model

Jones, J.W, Hoogenboom, G, Porter, C.H, Boote, K.J, Batchelor, W.D, Hunt, L.A, Wilkens, P.W, Singh, U +2 more·2003·European Journal of Agronomy

Abstract

The decision support system for agrotechnology transfer (DSSAT) has been in use for the last 15 years by researchers worldwide. This package incorporates models of 16 different crops with software that facilitates the evaluation and application of the crop models for different purposes. Over the last few years, it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the DSSAT crop models, partly due to fact that there were different sets of computer code for different crops with little attention to software design at the level of crop models themselves. Thus, the DSSAT crop models have been re-designed and programmed to facilitate more efficient incorporation of new scientific advances, applications, documentation and maintenance. The basis for the new DSSAT cropping system model (CSM) design is a modular structure in which components separate along scientific discipline lines and are structured to allow easy replacement or addition of modules. It has one Soil module, a Crop Template module which can simulate different crops by defining species input files, an interface to add individual crop models if they have the same design and interface, a Weather module, and a module for dealing with competition for light and water among the soil, plants, and atmosphere. It is also designed for incorporation into various application packages, ranging from those that help researchers adapt and test the CSM to those that operate the DSSAT-CSM to simulate production over time and space for different purposes. In this paper, we describe this new DSSAT-CSM design as well as approaches used to model the primary scientific components (soil, crop, weather, and management). In addition, the paper describes data requirements and methods used for model evaluation. We provide an overview of the hundreds of published studies in which the DSSAT crop models have been used for various applications. The benefits of the new, re-designed DSSAT-CSM will provide considerable opportunities to its developers and others in the scientific community for greater cooperation in interdisciplinary research and in the application of knowledge to solve problems at field, farm, and higher levels.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s1161-0301(02)00107-7

Cites

210 of 210 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

6 of the 216 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Jones, J. W., Hoogenboom, G., Porter, C. H., Boote, K. J., Batchelor, W. D., Hunt, L. A., Wilkens, P. W., Singh, U., Gijsman, A. J., & Ritchie, J. T.
Affiliations
  • University of Florida (US)
  • University of Georgia (US)
  • Iowa State University (US)
  • University of Guelph (CA)
  • International Fertilizer Development Center (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
Corresponding author
Jones, J.W
Venue
European Journal of Agronomy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-01
Volume
18
Issue
3-4
Pages
235-265
ISSN
1161-0301 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2158883105
Cited by
4,465
References
216
Citations by year
2026: 349 · 2025: 341 · 2024: 296 · 2023: 286 · 2022: 328 · 2021: 313 · 2020: 329 · 2019: 269 · 2018: 241 · 2017: 254 · 2016: 198 · 2015: 191 · 2014: 190 · 2013: 175 · 2012: 178
FWCI
26.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • European Journal of Agronomy (publishedVersion)
  • European Journal of Agronomy
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Irrigation Practices and Water Management
Keywords
DSSAT, crop growth simulation, modular software design, soil model, model evaluation, agricultural technology transfer, crop yield simulation

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review