Products and Tools
APSoil
APSoil is a database of soil water characteristics
enabling estimation of Plant Available Water Capacity for individual
soils and crops. It covers many cropping regions of Australia and is
regularly updated. It is designed for use in simulation modelling
and agronomic practice.
For more information about APSoil and other soil related tools, click here
Google Earth
Click here to view all the Patch Point Data SILO Weather Stations in Google Earth.
Click here to view the APSoil database in Google Earth.
TAV_AMP
TAV_AMP (500kb) - Calculate values of annual average ambient
temperature (TAV) and annual amplitude in mean monthly temperature (AMP) for an APSIM climate (met) file
and insert these values with keywords into the file.
Documentation.
TAMET
TAMET (1.91Mb) - This program was originally
developed by B. H. Wall of the CSIRO Div. of Tropical Crops and
Pastures in 1977. It performs a range of checks on weather files for
consistency. It has been adapted to check APSIM .met files and now
comes with a GUI. Documentation.
Analysis1.xls
Analysis1.xls (116kb) - This spreadsheet,
developed by Neil Huth, will import APSIM output files using a user
specified filespec. When opening, click "Enable macros" if
prompted by Excel.
Analysis2.xls
Analysis2.xls (124kb) - This spreadsheet,
developed by Neil Huth, will import specific APSIM output files using a user
specified filespec. When opening, click "Enable macros" if
prompted by Excel.
Thing to fix piviot tables
This macro will convert piviot table fild sumary types to 'Averages' which is quite useful because they are normally displayed as sums or counts which are bugger all use.
ChangeSumVariable.bas Control file generator
Control file generator (1.1Mb) - This tool
generates APSIM control and parameters files in a factorial
combination given a template file and parameter values that are
specified in the user interface. Documentation.
APSIM File Generator
APSIMFileGen.zip (3.6Mb) - This file generator has been adapted from
the Control File Generator. It is a very basic tool to facilitate generation of factorial simulations.
It uses a macro substitution system where user macros in a control file template are replaced with values
at generation time. Some documentation is included in the .zip file.
Whopper Cropper
Whopper Cropper is an easy-to-use computer program designed to provide crop management
advisers with the latest technology in cropping systems modelling and seasonal climate
forecasting. The highly variable climate of north-eastern Australia makes cropping a
complex and risky business that is difficult to study using short-term field trials.
The Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU) has developed a cropping systems
model, Agricultural Production Systems SIMulator (APSIM), that can be used to support
improved risk management in cropping systems. Whopper Cropper is the result of many years
interaction between researchers and crop management advisers developing this modelling
technology and make it widely available. View the Whopper Cropper fact sheet
Other APSRU Products
HowOften?
HowWet?
HowMuch?
HowLeaky?
Perfect
Experimental
Experimental - This is a prototype site to test "publishing" data from long term catchment studies in Queensland, AUSTRALIA. These catchment studies formed part of a suite of hydrology and erosion studies initiated by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries in the 1960'sand 1970's.