Generating downscaled weather data from a suite of climate models for agricultural modelling applications

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-5

  Jones, Peter G ^a   Thornton, Philip K ^b  

^a Waen Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; DSSAT; Markov models; Stochastic generation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER;

EID: 84866148150     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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