A calibration procedure to improve global rice yield simulations with EPIC

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 273, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-139

  Xiong, Wei ^a,b   Balkovič, Juraj ^a,e   van der Velde, Marijn ^a   Zhang, Xuesong ^c   Izaurralde, R César ^c   Skalský, Rastislav ^a,f   Lin, Erda ^b   Mueller, Nathan ^d   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^f Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Crop model; EPIC; Global calibration; Rice

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CROP MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INTEGRATED CLIMATE MODELS; EPIC; GLOBAL CALIBRATION; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; RICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; DATABASE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PADDY FARMING; RICE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888774801     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.10.026     Document Type: Article

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