<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Data Pre-processing for Agricultural Simulations</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Jarolímek</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Pavlík</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kholova</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ronanki</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>The process of agricultural simulation using APSIM requires input meteorological data to be prepared&#13;
in a specific format and the simulation setting file to be ready before the simulation processing starts. Because&#13;
of possible time savings when conducting large number of simulations at once, it is preferable to create all&#13;
the input and settings files for all the simulations beforehand and process the simulations in batches as large&#13;
as possible. This article specifically deals with the data acquisition, transformation and preparation process.&#13;
It also outlines initial testing and computing time estimations and discusses scheduling, parallel processing&#13;
and other possible simulation optimization methods.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Crop Modelling</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Crop Physiology</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Data &amp;amp; Analytics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2019-03</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>