Integrating seasonal climate prediction and agricultural models for insights into agricultural practice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1463, 2005, Pages 2037-2047

  Hansen, James W ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop model; Impact assessment; Seasonal climate prediction; Yield forecasting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FORECASTING METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RISK PERCEPTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; CROP; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REVIEW; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEASONS;

EID: 33645741676     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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