6 February 2018

Daisy 5.59 released on all platforms

Improvements to pesticide modelling

Daisy will now use small timesteps for short irrigation events.

This is useful for simulating water dissolved pesticide application as very short irrigation events. Without this, the water in the pesticide application may evaporate before it hits the soil.

New 'molar_mass' chemical parameter.

This is used for handling metabolites. 

New implementation of 'canopy_washoff_coeffcient'.

The new code it no longer timestep dependent. 

New 'decompose_soil_factor' parameter.

When set to FOCUS, it will replace the default depth, heat, and water factors with functions consistent with FOCUS recommendations.

Fix mass balance error when using Freunlich sorption and secondary domain.

New 'remove_solute' management action.

Removed the specified chemical from the field.

Other changes

New 'log_suffix' parameter.

Analogue to 'log_prefix', the specified text is appended to all output file names.

Many bug fixes an improvements to the SSOC SVAT model.

These will be documented later in a seperate paper.

New 'quartz' horizon parameter.

This affects heat transport.

New FAO_PM_hourly evapotranspiration model.

Similar to FAO_PM, but adjusted for use with hourly weather data.