CRITERIA-1D is an agro-hydrological model that simulates one-dimensional water flow in variable saturation soils, crop development, root water extraction and irrigation water needs.

Soil water flow can be simulated with two different approaches depending on the user's choice: a physically based numerical model or a layer-based conceptual model. Soil and crop parameters can be defined at different levels of detail. It requires daily agro-meteorological data as input: minimum and maximum air temperature, total precipitation and, if available, water table depth data to estimate capillary rise.

CRITERIA-GEO is a GIS interface for managing geo-referenced model projects, it requires a crop map, a soil map and a meteorological grid. Each computation unit is defined as a different combination of crop, soil and meteo. The output is stored in a SQLite database and can be exported to csv, shapefile or raster data using the CriteriaOutput tool. Software is written in C++ using Qt libraries, so cross-platform building is possible (Windows, Linux, Mac OS).

See technical manual for documentation and last release to download precompiled binaries.

CRITERIA is operational at Arpae Emilia-Romagna. It has been used in several international projects (Demeter, Ensembles, Vintage, Moses, Clara, Highlander, ADA) and it is reported in the International Soil Modeling Consortium.

Criteria1D API is a project of VAIMEE to integrate the model into the most diverse applications, such as in ZENTRA cloud.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CRITERIA1D_PRO is a graphical interface to manage a Criteria-1D project, modify the crop parameters, test the model and the main outputs: leaf area index, evaporation and transpiration, root depth and root density, soil moisture and irrigation water needs.

CRITERIA-GEO is a GIS interface for managing geographical input/output of CRITERIA-1D model: crop map, soil map, meteorological grid and computation units map. A computation unit is defined as a different combination of crop, soil and meteo data.

Soil editor is a tool to edit the soil properties. It uses a modified Van Genuchten - Mualem model to estimate the water retention and hydraulic conductivity curves.

HEAT1D is a graphical interface for testing the soilFluxex3D library in a 1D domain. Users can set fixed or variable atmospheric boundary conditions and soil parameters. Output graph results include soil temperature, soil water content, heat fluxes (diffusive and latent), liquid (isothermal and thermal) and vapor (isothermal and thermal) water fluxes.

Requirements:

• Qt libraries: Qt 5.x or following (download also QtCharts).
• Only for Qt 6.x : download also Qt5 Compatibility Module

Only for CRITERIA GEO:

• NetCDF library

Windows installation: download and install NetCDF 4.x (32 or 64 bit version, depending on your compiler), then set the system variable NC4_INSTALL_DIR = NetCDF installation path (e.g C:\Program Files\netCDF 4.7.1)

• GDAL library

See gdalHandler for GDAL installation.

• LINUX: deploy/CRITERIA1D_build_Linux.sh
• MACOS: deploy/CRITERIA1D_build_MacOS.sh
• WINDOWS (Visual Studio c++ compiler): deploy/CRITERIA1D_build_MSVC_bat
• WINDOWS (MinGW c++ compiler): deploy/CRITERIA1D_build_MinGW_bat

The distribution will be created in the directory /deploy/CRITERIA1D/

• For LINUX and MACOS: modify QT_DIR in the first line of the script.
• For WINDOWS: read the information in the first lines of the script file.

CRITERIA-1D has been developed under contract issued by ARPAE Hydro-Meteo-Climate Service, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The executables (CRITERIA1D, CRITERIA_GEO, SOIL_EDITOR, HEAT1D) are released under the GNU GPL license, the libraries (agrolib) are released under the GNU LGPL license.

• Fausto Tomei [email protected]
• Gabriele Antolini [email protected]