Design and optimisation of a large-area process-based model for annual crops

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 99-120

  Challinor, A J ^a   Wheeler, T R ^a   Craufurd, P Q ^a   Slingo, J M ^a   Grimes, D I F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GCM: general circulation model; ICRISAT: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics; LAI: leaf area index; RMSE: root mean square error; RUE: radiation use efficiency; SLA: specific leaf area; VPD: vapour pressure deficit

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; LEAF AREA INDEX; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ARACHIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 2942746674     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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