Quantifying plasticity in simulation models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 225, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-166

  Confalonieri, R ^a   Bregaglio, S ^a,b   Acutis, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

CropSyst; Model evaluation; Robustness; WARM; WOFOST

Indexed keywords

CROP MODEL; CROPSYST; MODEL ACCURACY; MODEL COMPLEXITY; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODELLING STUDIES; NORTHERN ITALY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMILAR DEGREE; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION MODEL; TOTAL ORDER; WARM; WOFOST;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PLASTICITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

EID: 83455201655     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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