Reducing the impact of model scale on simulated, gridded switchgrass yields

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-83

  Di Vittorio, Alan V ^a,b   Miller, Norman L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agro BGC; Bioenergy; Biome BGC; Scale; Switchgrass; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRO-BGC; BIO-ENERGY; BIOME-BGC; SCALE; SWITCHGRASS; UNCERTAINTY;

BIOFUELS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; HETEROGENEITY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84886035713     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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