Model (UKCEH) FARMSCOPER (Farm Scale Optimisation of Pollutant Emission Reductions)
Farmscoper is a decision support tool that allows an assessment of the cost and effectiveness of agricultural mitigation methods on multiple pollutants. It incorporates meta-models of a number of different pollutant models which have previously been used for government policy support at national scale. Farmscoper was originally developed for use at farm scale, but the tool has now been expanded (v3) to include functionality to predict pollutant losses and mitigation impacts for multiple farms in order to simulate one or more catchments. It contains all the data required for use at Water Management Catchment scale in England.
Model was developed using data for England and Wales.
Temporal Resolution
Annual
Spatial Resolution
farm to catchment
Primary Purpose
Pollutant losses for multiple pollutants at farm to national scale. Cost and effect of mitigation method implementation.
Key Output Variables
Nutrient losses; Other pollutant losses; GHG losses; Effect on pollutant losses of mitigation method implementation; Cost of mitigation method implementation.
Gooday, R.D., Anthony, S.G., Chadwick, D.R., Newell-Price, P., Harris, D., Duethmann, D., Fish, R., Collins, A.L., Winter, M. 2014. Modelling the cost-effectiveness of mitigation methods for multiple pollutants at farm scale. Science of the Total Environment, 468-469, 1198-1209