Implication of crop model calibration strategies for assessing regional impacts of climate change in Europe

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-46

  Angulo, Carlos ^a   Rötter, Reimund ^b   Lock, Reiner ^a   Enders, Andreas ^a   Fronzek, Stefan ^c   Ewert, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Calibration; Impact assessment; Regional crop modelling; Simulation; Yield variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; EUROPEAN UNION; GROWTH RATE; MAIZE; PHENOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HORDEUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84872934055     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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