CASANDRA: Web based platform to assess impacts and define adaption strategies to climate change.

ALFREDO LUIS ROLLA; SANTIAGO MEIRA; EDGARDO GUEVARA

Montpellier

Workshop; agMIP6 Global Workshop; 2016

agMIP

Crop models are used to assess or estimate yield among other important variables such as phenology, dry matter, LAI, soil water content, soil and water management, as well as to evaluate different climate or management scenarios at a particular site. On the other hand, problems involving regional climate change include various spatial scales, and would benefit from simulations over large areas using high-resolution climate data spatially distributed (CMIP5, reanalysis, etc.). The geospatial web platform "CASANDRA" was developed to solve the spatial scale problem allowing to combine different site specific crop models (DSSAT, APSIM*, STICS*) with different climate scenarios and typical regional management. This way, it is possible to visualize impacts at both spatial and temporal level and also evaluate different regional adaptation strategies.