Quantifying the value of historical climate knowledge and climate forecasts using agricultural systems modelling

Climatic Change

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-61

  Wang, Enli ^a   McIntosh, Peter ^a   Jiang, Qiang ^a   Xu, Johnny ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; DRYLAND; EXCESS NITROGEN; FALLOW SYSTEMS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; GROWING SEASON; LONG TERM; NITROGEN APPLICATION RATES; NITROGEN MANAGEMENT; POTENTIAL VALUES; STUDY SITES;

CROPS; FORECASTING; NITROGEN; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; DATA INTERPRETATION; DRYLAND FARMING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FALLOW; HISTORICAL RECORD; MODEL TEST; NITROGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 76149142469     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9592-4     Document Type: Article

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