STICS GROWTH MODEL: INSTALLATION WINDOWS
16 months ago, I needed a growth model that could handle running simulations of the sugar beet crop. The STICS model, developed in France, had successfully been used in a project that included millions of simulations in the sugar beet crop: the Previbest project, presented at the 79th IIRB congress (IIRB2024), by Thomas Leborgne. The work done at NBR 16 months ago was on a Linux machine and there is post on this site about installation of STICS.
Now, the need is for model that can run simulations in both sugar beet and wheat, and hopefully a lot of other crops in the future. So, STICS seems to fit the bill.
INSTALLATION
Taking from the previous post: “The summary of this step is that there is good documentation for the installation of STICS and SticsOnR already.
In fact, it is even easier. There is no need to install extra programs or update Java. The only issue experience with the Windows installation was permissions: JavaSTICS was originally placed in C:/Program Files, but needed to be in C:/Users/Me/Program Files .
CLIMATE FILES
After a bit of digging around in the forums, it was concluded that the weather input files for STICS are in the order:
Station ID; Year; Month; Day of month; Day of year; Tmin [C]; Tmax [C]; Radiation [MJ/m2/day]; PET [mm/day]; Precipitation [mm/day]; Wind [m/s]; Vapour pressure [Mbar]; CO2 concentration [ppm].
This is surely information one gets if one does the training…