COMPUTER MODELS FOR CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND SHORT-WAVE RADIATION IN GREENHOUSES

The following is a description of IBM Israel Scientific Center’s activities in a joint research project on the design and operation of automated closed system greenhouses, with the Institute for Desert Research of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the department of Agricultural Engineering at the Technion, Haifa.

The Scientific Center’s present activities in the project are mainly in the following areas:

• General thermodynamic model

• Short-wave radiation submodel

These models are used for both closed system and conventional greenhouses.
Future activities will include the control of greenhouses using models.

Symposium on Computers in Greenhouse Climate Control

V. Amdurskey

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1980.106.18