RAINPROOF

Digital water protection advisory tool for drained soils.

In the RAINPROOF project, we aimed to answer the question: 

"Can we minimize pesticide leaching through drain pipes by taking field conditions and weather forecast into account before application?"

The project was a 3 year project and involved 100's of Daisy simulations carried out an a super computing giving information on pesticide leaching through drains after application on 2.6 million application days. Three generated weather series with 3000 years of weather representing conditions at Copenhagen, Denmark; Elde, Netherlands and Chemnitz, Germany was used. The weather series can be found here. 

Some of the results from the project are presented in the paper by Vuaille et al., 2022. 

Vuaille, J., Holbak., M., Perslev, M., Diamantopoulos, E., Jensen, S.M., Styczen, M.E., Petersen, C.T., Strobel, B.W.,  and Abrahamsen, P.: Can information on past and near-future weather and field conditions predict the safest pesticide application day?. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, volume 203, Dec. 2022, 107454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.107454