Title
Sensitivity analysis of spatio-temporal models describing nitrogen transfers, transformations and losses at the landscape scale.
Abstract
Modelling complex systems such as agroecosystems often requires the quantification of a large number of input factors. Sensitivity analyses are useful to determine the appropriate spatial and temporal resolution of models and to reduce the number of factors to be measured or estimated accurately. Comprehensive spatial and temporal sensitivity analyses were applied to the NitroScape model, a deterministic spatially distributed model describing nitrogen transfers and transformations in rural landscapes. Simulations were led on a theoretical landscape that represented five years of intensive farm management and covering an area of 3 km2. Cluster analyses were applied to summarize the results of the sensitivity analysis on the ensemble of model outputs. The methodology we applied is useful to synthesize sensitivity analyses of models with multiple space-time input and output variables and could be ported to other models than NitroScape.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.010
Environmental Modelling & Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sensitivity analysis,Cluster analysis,Nitrogen cascade,Spatial model,Landscape scale
Complex system,Soil science,Nitrogen,Distributed element model,Groundwater,Hydrology,Input/output,Temporal models,Statistics,Temporal resolution,Mathematics,Soil water
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
111
1364-8152
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
8