AIDA, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France; CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Harare, Zimbabwe; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), 12.5km Peg, Mazowe Rd, Harare, Zimbabwe; Department of Plant Production Sciences and Technologies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Vimbayi Grace Petrova CHIMONYO
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), 12.5km Peg, Mazowe Rd, Harare, Zimbabwe; Centre for Transformative Agriculture and Food Systems, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
AIDA, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France; CIRAD/AIDA Bâtiment D, Bureau 031 Station de La Bretagne, 40 chemin de Grand Canal, CS 12014 97743 Saint-Denis Cedex 9 Réunion
Myriam ADAM
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Processing, National University of Battambang, Battambang, Cambodia; CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France; AGAP Institute, Univ. Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Inst. Agro. F-34398 Montpellier, France
The objective of the ACME (Agile Crop Model Ensemble) software is to facilitate the simulation of large virtual experiments using an ensemble of crop models on personal computers running Windows OS. These simulations can either be point-based or spatially explicit. The package includes an ensemble of three crop models (executable files and input and output data) and two databases: ‘MasterInputOutput’ which contains the input and output variables of the models, and ‘ModelDictionary’, which contains the connections and required transformations between variables of the different models. In addition, an executable code ‘DataMill’ applies these transformations and manages the data flow between the MasterInputOutput database and the file system of each model, before (input parameters) and after (output parameters) running the virtual experiment.
