Use of weather information for agricultural decision making

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-69

  Frisvold, George B ^a   Murugesan, Anand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; INTERNET; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874227024     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00022.1     Document Type: Article

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