A comparison of downscaling techniques in the projection of local climate change and wheat yields

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 249-261

  Luo, Qunying ^a   Wen, Li ^b   McGregor, John L ^c   Timbal, Bertrand ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM; BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR;

AGRICULTURE; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROMETEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; RAINFALL; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84881613101     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0802-8     Document Type: Article

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