Spatial scales of climate information for simulating wheat and maize productivity: The case of the US Great Plains

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 51-63

  Easterling, William E ^a   Weiss, Albert ^b   Hays, Cynthia J ^b   Mearns, Linda O ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Crop model; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031895818     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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