EPIC
Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model
The Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model is a land use model to evaluate the sustainability of agricultural systems, focused on soil productivity and crop growth. It is capable of modeling over 80 crops and the effects of a variety of land and water management strategies. Agricultural systems sustainability is assessed based on erosion, land management with water quality effects.
- Developer
- NRCS & Texas A&M
- Model Information
- For more information about this model, go to epicapex.tamu.edu
- Spatial Resolution
- Analysis area ranges from field to small basin scale, and then further subdivided into cells. Cells are defined by land areas with homogeneous characteristics.
- Temporal Resolution
- A daily time step is used and simulation duration is on the order of years.
- Outputs
- Outputs include water quality predictions, vegetation response, economic assessment of varying land management strategies.
- Intended User
- practitioner
- Model Type
- watershed
- Inclusion of Climate Change
- Climate conditions are incorporated through climate input file.
- Geographic Region
- generalized
- Data Requirements
- data provided by the user
- Source Code Availability
- open source
- Dimensions
- 2d
- Computational Burden
- medium
- Scenario Modeling
- batch mode likely
- Coding Language
- unknown
- Operating System
- not applicable
- Mathematical Approach
- deterministic
- Maintenance Plan
- maintained
- Date of Last Known Update
- not available
- User Manual
- go to documentation at agrilife.org
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