Joint PDFs for Australian climate in future decades and an idealized application to wheat crop yield

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 221-230

  Watterson, I G ^a   Whetton, P H ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP YIELD; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84859790400     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6104.003     Document Type: Article

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