Quantification of physical and biological uncertainty in the simulation of the yield of a tropical crop using present-day and doubled CO2 climates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1463, 2005, Pages 2085-2094

  Challinor, A J ^a   Wheeler, T R ^a   Slingo, J M ^a   Hemming, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop simulation models; Crop yield; High temperature stress; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PEANUT; PHYSIOLOGY; SWEATING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33645741143     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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