Using farm accountancy data to calibrate a crop model for climate impact studies

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-33

  Klein, Tommy ^a,b   Calanca, Pierluigi ^a,b   Holzkämper, Annelie ^a,b   Lehmann, Niklaus ^c   Roesch, Andreas ^a   Fuhrer, Jürg ^a,b  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crop yield modeling; Farm accountancy data; Meteorologically Possible Yield; Model calibration; Parameter uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL VALIDATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84861875482     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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