Shortcomings of classical phenological forcing models and a way to overcome them

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-19

  Blümel, Klaus ^a   Chmielewski, Frank M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beginning of blossom; Climate change; Model comparison; Phenological modelling; Photoperiod; Spring Warming model

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DAY LENGTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

GERMANY;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84861746095     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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