Linking weather generators and crop models for assessment of climate forecast outcomes

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-174

  Apipattanavis, Somkiat ^a   Bert, Federico ^b   Podestá, Guillermo ^c   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Climate impacts; Maize; Risk assessment; Seasonal forecasting; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; DOWNSCALING; MAIZE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; CORDOBA [ARGENTINA]; PERGAMINO; PILAR;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 74449083295     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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