Diagnostics of climate model biases in summer temperature and warm-season insolation for the simulation of regional paddy rice yield in Japan

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 574-591

  Iizumi, Toshichika ^a   Nishimori, Motoki ^a   Yokozawa, Masayuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION MODELS; CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CROP MODEL; DATA SETS; ERROR PROPAGATION; METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INPUT; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; PADDY RICE; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PADDY FIELD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

JAPAN;

EID: 77955563746     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2225.1     Document Type: Article

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