Preface: Climate predictions for better agricultural risk management

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 935-938

  Meinke, Holger ^a,b   Sivakumar, M V K ^c   Motha, Raymond P ^d   Nelson, Rohan ^e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 37349121744     PISSN: 00049409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ARv58n10_PR     Document Type: Conference Paper

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