Calibration and bias correction of climate projections for crop modelling: An idealised case study over Europe

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-31

  Hawkins, Ed ^a   Osborne, Thomas M ^a   Ho, Chun Kit ^a   Challinor, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Calibration; Climate model; Climate projections; Crop model; Delta method; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84872893332     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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