Effect of temporal and spatial scales of weather data on crop yield forecasts

Climate Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-78

  Li, Sanai ^a   Tompkins, Adrian M ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop forecasting; Dynamical crop model; Temporal and spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE DATA; CROP MODEL; CROP YIELD; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MEMORY EFFECTS; RAINFALL DATA; SAMPLING ERRORS; SEASONAL MEAN; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; STATION DATA; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; WEATHER DATA; WHEAT YIELD; YIELD FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84869776620     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01113     Document Type: Article

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