Jaromir Krzyszczak

Institute of Agrophysics PAN · Department of Metrology and Modelling of Agrophysical Processes

In this paper studies on the impact of the location of Time-Domain Reflectometry probes in soil samples on the moisture measurement are presented. In particular, we were interested if the commonly accepted assumption that moisture measurements performed by TDR probes correctly average the value of the soil water content in a soil sample. Soil sampl...

Comparison of long-term daily prediction of soil water content at different depths of soil coming from two models, one physically based (HYDRUS-1D) and the other being soft-computing technique (Support Vector Machine), has been done. The models used provide quite accurate prediction for soil moisture content, especially in the most important layers...

The effect of random point-like impurities on correlated superconductor has been studied. We use the two component (also called boson-fermion (BF)) model formulated in a real space supplemented with strong on-site electron-electron repulsion U and solve it by means of the real space Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach. It has been shown that due to elect...

We study fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter of s-wave symmetry caused by nonmagnetic disorder present both in the boson and fermion subsystems using the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations. In particular, we are interested if some features of the d-wave model persist for s-wave symmetry as well. These are: positive correlations between...

The two-component model of high temperature superconductors in its real space version has been solved using Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The disorder in the electron and boson subsystem has been taken into account. It strongly modifies the superconducting properties and leads to local variations of the gap parameter and density of states. The as...

In this study, the impact of vegetation, land surface temperature, and precipitation on changes in water level and area of seven inland lakes (Urmia lake in Iran, Tharthar, Mosul lakes and Hammar 4 wetland in Iraq, and Beyşehir and Erçek lakes in Turkey) is analyzed to evaluate the variability of these lakes due to climate change. The altimetric da...

Despite the importance of the Amu Darya and Kabul River Basins as a region in which more than 15 million people live, and its vulnerability to global warming, only a few studies addressed the issue of the linkage of meteorological parameters on vegetation for the eastern basins of Afghanistan. In this study, data from the MODIS, Global Precipitatio...

Jet streams are atmospheric phenomena that operate on a synoptic scale and can intensify the descending/ascending conditions of the air at the lower levels of the atmosphere. This study aimed to identify the patterns and location of the jet stream in southwest Asia during the days of widespread rainfall in Iran based on two criteria: "highest frequ...

Despite the importance of the Amu Darya and Kabul River Basins as a region in which more than 15 million people live, and its vulnerability to global warming, only several studies addressed the issue of the linkage of meteorological parameters on vegetation for the eastern basins of Afghanistan. In this study, data from the MODIS, Global Precipitat...

Purpose The accurate and frequent estimation of the leaf plant potassium concentration enabled by hyperspectral imaging techniques has allowed growers to optimize fertilizer applications and reduce the negative impact on the environment. In this study, we examined the feasibility of using leaf spectral data to accurately estimate the potassium cont...

The spatiotemporal variability of vegetation in the Middle East was investigated for the period 2001–2019 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 16-day/500 m composites of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI; MOD13A1). The results reveal a strong increase in NDVI coverage in the Middle East during the study per...

The dynamics of land surface temperature (LST) in Afghanistan in the period 2000–2021 were investigated, and the impact of the factors such as soil moisture, precipitation, and vegetation coverage on LST was assessed. The remotely sensed soil moisture data from Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS), precipitation data from Climate Hazards Group Inf...

The vulnerability of vegetation in the Middle East to meteorological conditions and climate change, especially those leading to drought, is high. Despite the importance of the Amu Darya and Kabul River Basins (ADB and KRB) as a region in which more than 15 million people live, and its vulnerability to global warming, only several studies addressed...

This study used NDVI, ET, and LST satellite images collected by moderate resolution imaging spectroradiom-eter and tropical rainfall measuring mission sensors to investigate seasonal and yearly vegetation dynamics, and also the influence of climatological factors on it, in the area of the Caspian Sea Watersheds for 2001-2019. The relationships have...

To investigate the dynamics of land surface temperature (LST) in Afghanistan in the period 2000-2021 and to assess the impact of such factors as soil moisture, precipitation, and vegetation coverage on it, remotely sensed soil moisture data from Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS), precipitation data from Climate Hazards Group Infra-Red Precipita...

The variations in vegetation coverage (defined as the area with Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) > 0.2) and atmospheric patterns occurring during various vegetation seasons in the Kabul River Basin (KRB) in Afghanistan during 2001–2019 were analyzed. The analysis was done based on the NDVI, land surface temperature (LST), precipitation...

The present paper attempts to investigate whether the Sub-Measure 6.1 “Start-Up Aid for Young Farmers” payments of the 2014–2020 Rural Development Programme have a role to play in explaining Greek farms’ export orientation and export performance through a statistical analysis of farm-level data. The results demonstrate considerable differences in f...

Severe thunderstorms are often accompanied by strong vertical air currents, temporary wind gusts, and heavy rainfall. The development of this atmospheric phenomenon over tropical shallow water zones, such as bays, can lead to intensification of atmospheric disturbances and produce a small-scale storm surge. Here, the storm surge that occurred on 19...

Severe thunderstorms are often accompanied by strong vertical air currents, temporary wind gusts, and heavy rainfall. The development of this atmospheric phenomenon over tropical shallow water zones, such as bays, can lead to intensification of atmospheric disturbances and produce a small-scale storm surge. Here, the storm surge that occurred on 19...

The Middle East is an area characterized by strong gradients in meteorological conditions and varied land cover. As a result, some of the hottest places in the world as well as very cold areas can be found in this region. The objective of this paper is to quantitatively assess land surface temperature (LST) variations in the countries of the Middle...

Background Modern agriculture strives to sustainably manage fertilizer for both economic and environmental reasons. The monitoring of any nutritional (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium) deficiency in growing plants is a challenge for precision farming technology. A study was carried out on three species of popular crops, celery ( Apium graveolens L.,...

The spatiotemporal variability of vegetation in the Middle East was investigated for the period 2001–2019 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 16-day/500 m composites of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI; MOD13A1). The results reveal a strong increase in the NDVI coverage in the Middle East during the study...

The agricultural drought, severely affecting human life, occurs unpredictably at different times with different intensities. The conventional methods for assessing drought often relay on indices obtained using meteorological data, but due to the low spatial coverage, incompleteness and inaccuracy of these data, meteorological indices cannot be cons...

The multifractal properties of six acknowledged agro-meteorological parameters, such as reference evapotranspiration (ET0), wind speed (U), incoming solar radiation (SR), air temperature (T), air pressure (P), and relative air humidity (RH) of five stations in California, USA were examined. The investigation of multifractality of datasets from stat...

The spatiotemporal variability of vegetation in the Middle East was investigated for the period 2001-2019 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 16-day/500 m composites of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI; MOD13A1). The results reveal a strong increase in the NDVI coverage in the Middle East during the study...

This paper examined the multifractal properties of six acknowledged agro-meteorological parameters, such as reference evapotranspiration (ET0), wind speed (U), incoming solar radiation (SR), air temperature (T), air pressure (P), and relative air humidity (RH) of five stations in California, USA. The investigation of multifractality of datasets fro...

A comparison study has been performed to assess the dynamics of meteorological processes in Poland on the basis of meteorological time series of air pressure, air temperature and wind speed coming from 35 synoptic stations belonging to the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management—National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB) and from the nearest grid...

Background: Modern agriculture strives to sustainably manage fertilizer for both economic and environmental reasons. The monitoring of any nutritional (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium) deficiency in growing plants is a challenge for precision farming technology. A study was carried out on three species of popular crops, celery (Apium graveolens L.,...

Background: Modern agriculture strives to sustainably manage fertilizer for both economic and environmental reasons. The monitoring of any nutritional (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium) deficiency in growing plants is a challenge for precision farming technology. A study was carried out on three species of popular crops, celery (Apium graveolens L.,...

This paper explores the idea of combining Trigonometric Exponential Smoothing State Space model with Box-Cox transformation, ARMA errors, Trend and Seasonal Components (TBATS) with Support Vector Machine (SVM) model to estimate time series of the minimum and maximum daily air temperatures in a period of six years for various climatic localizations...

One unintended consequence of nitrogen use in agriculture is an increase in nitrate content in ground waters. Nitrogen content was evaluated in soil samples from specific hydrographic regions of Poland from the 60-90 cm soil layer, in which this nutrient is not readily available to the main root mass of crop plants and may negatively affect the env...

The results of the multifractal analysis performed for meteorological time series coming from four stations in Poland and Bulgaria located in varying climatic zones are presented. To assess climatic shift response (in 2001/2002), the analysis was conducted separately for two subsets. To analyze long-distance power-law correlations within the studie...

Spatial variability of the multifractal properties of a 36-year-long meteorological time series for Poland coming from the MERRA-2 database was analysed. It constitute a very valuable source of meteorological data, as high similarity with ground data recorded at meteorological stations in the region of interest was stated by the analysis of similar...

Evaluation of mineral nitrogen content (Nmin) was performed for the 60-90 cm layer of grassland soils relative to other selected agricultural fodder crops. Soil samples were collected two times per year, in spring and autumn, over the period 2010-2012 from fixed locations scattered across whole Poland territory. Additionally, particle-size distribu...

Climate change is expected to severely affect cropping systems and food production in many parts of the world unless local adaptation can ameliorate these impacts. Ensembles of crop simulation models can be useful tools for assessing if proposed adaptation options are capable of achieving target yields, whilst also quantifying the share of uncertai...

This study attempted to evaluate the relationship between mineral nitrogen (Nmin) content and soil pH in the 60-90 cm layer of grassland soils relative to other selected agricultural fodder crops. The area of the study uniformly covered the whole territory of Poland. The dependence between Nmin content and soil pH was expressed as correlation coeff...

Podjęto próbę oceny zależności zawartości azotu mineralnego w glebach użytków zielonych, na tle innych wybranych upraw rolniczych o przeznaczeniu paszowym, od dawki nawożenia azotem mineralnym. Niezależnie od terminu poboru próbek do analizy (wiosenny lub jesienny) czy sposobu użytkowania (kośnie, pastwiskowo, kośnie-pastwiskowo i przemiennie), daw...

Mineral nitrogen occurring at the depth of 60-90 cm of the soil profile, which is unavailable to the main root mass of grassland plants and arable land crops and which is located in this layer due to leaching to deeper soil layers, can pose a serious threat to water quality. This study attempted to evaluate Nmin content in grassland soils depending...

The level of macro-and microelements in soil and its reaction are among those physico-chemical properties that have a decisive impact on plant production, including orchard plantations. Evaluation of those properties provides extremely important information that can help the fruit farmer in making rational and correct decisions concerning the appli...

An environmental study, which was conducted at 45 agricultural farms located in southeastern Poland (Lubelskie Voivodeship) over the period of 2015-2016, evaluated the effect of some soil physicochemical properties and nitrogen fertilisation on winter wheat yield. Soil physicochemical analysis was performed using conventional methods at the accredi...

The daily air temperature and precipitation time series recorded between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2010 in four European sites (Jokioinen, Dikopshof, Lleida and Lublin) from different climatic zones were modeled and forecasted. In our forecasting we used the methods of the Box-Jenkins and Holt-Winters seasonal auto regressive integrated movi...

This work was financially supported by the Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA, MACSUR01-UPM), the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (D.M. 24064/7303/15) through FACCE MACSUR − Modelling European Agriculture with Climate Change for Food Se...

Crop growth simulation models can differ greatly in their treatment of key processes and hence in their response to environmental conditions. Here, we used an ensemble of 26 process-based wheat models applied at sites across a European transect to compare their sensitivity to changes in temperature (-2 to +9°C) and precipitation (-50 to +50%). Mode...

In the years 2008-2010 an environmental study was conducted, the objective of which was to estimate the current content of mineral nitrogen (nitrate V and ammonium) and sulphate sulphur in the soils of south-eastern Poland and to determine the relations of those elements with certain soil properties and cultivation treatments. 333 sampling points w...

Climate dynamics were assessed using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) for sites in Finland, Germany and Spain across a latitudinal transect. Meteorological time series were divided into the two subsets (1980–2001 and 2002–2010) and respective spectra of these subsets were compared to check whether changes in climate dynamics can...

Arable soils are a large source of nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and several factors may affect the processes (nitrification and denitrification) responsible for its production. In particular, forage crop systems for dairy farming are among the cropping systems with highest N input, mainly because they are based on high yielding forage grasses such...

Abstract Scale issues become very important when applying weather time series. We address problems associated with transferring meteorological data across time scales by comparing multifractal properties of hourly and daily meteorological time series. The multifractal detrended fluctuation approach revealed that temporal aggregation of agro-meteoro...

In the years 2008-2011, an environmental study was conducted for Polish soils, focusing on the south-eastern Poland soils, as they exhibit significant acidification. This study aimed at assessing the current pHKCl and the supply of basic macro- (P, K, Mg and S-SO4) and microelements (B, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn) in the collected soil samples, and also at...

Large-scale crop simulations with process-based models rely on meteorological input data of coarse spatial resolution. We assess how spatial aggregation of meteorological data to coarser resolutions affects the data’s temporal properties. This is largely unknown as is the impact which this aggregation effect (AE) has on simulations which use such a...

An environmental study was performed in the years 2008-2012 to evaluate actual soil reaction (pHKCl) and content of nutrients in soils of south-eastern Poland and also to determine the relationship of those nutrients to soil properties. To carry out those studies, 15493 soil samples were chemically analysed in certified laboratory of Regional Agroc...

This study explored the utility of the impact response surface (IRS) approach for investigating model ensemble crop yield responses under a large range of changes in climate. IRSs of spring and winter wheat Triticum aestivum yields were constructed from a 26-member ensemble of process-based crop simulation models for sites in Finland, Germany and S...

Agro-meteorological quantities are often in the form of time series, and knowledge about their temporal scaling properties is fundamental for transferring locally measured fluctuations to larger scales and vice versa. However, the scaling analysis of these quantities is complicated due to the presence of localized trends and nonstationarities. The...