Development and assessment of a coupled crop-climate model

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-183

  Osborne, Tom M ^a   Lawrence, David M ^b   Challinor, Andrew J ^a   Slingo, Julia M ^a   Wheeler, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Crop; Land surface feed backs; Modelling; Vegetation atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; VEGETATION;

EID: 33846233088     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01274.x     Document Type: Review

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