CRNS-based monitoring technologies for a weather and climate-resilient agriculture: realization by the ADAPTER project

The ADAPTER project involves the development and provision of innovative simulation-based data and information products for weather- and climate-resilient agriculture. In other words, ADAPTER makes daily ("soil") weather and comprehensive long-term climate change information freely available to the agricultural community and all interested parties as easy-to-use analyses, data products, and information. A key technology is thereby cosmic-ray neutron sensing, a non-invasive method to determine environmental water on the hectar scale. Measurements and forecasts focus on the current state and development of the water balance, including groundwater. To support the agricultural community towards an optimized soil management, Forschungszentrum Jülich uses forecast simulations with the hydrological numerical model ParFlow and the regional earth system model Terrestrial Systems Modeling Platform (TSMP) in combination with observations.