Simulation of hail effects on crop yield losses for corn-belt states in USA

Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 177-185

  Wang, Erda ^a   Little, Bertis B ^b   Williams, Jimmy R ^c   Yu, Yang ^d  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^d University of International Economics and Business Department of Finance   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crops; Economic analysis; EPIC; Hail damage; Simulation model; Soil type

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL; CROP YIELD; DATA-SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INTEGRATED CLIMATE MODELS; EPIC; EPIC MODEL; FIELD CROPS; HAIL DAMAGE; ILLINOIS; INDIANA; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; SIMULATION MODEL; SOIL TYPES; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; WEATHER FACTORS;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STOCHASTIC MODELS; STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84871074356     PISSN: 10026819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-6819.2012.21.025     Document Type: Article

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