Can agrometeorological indices of adverse weather conditions help to improve yield prediction by crop models?

Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1020-1041

  Lalić, Branislava ^a   Eitzinger, Josef ^b   Thaler, Sabina ^d   Vučetić, Višnjica ^c   Nejedlik, Pavol ^d   Eckersten, Henrik ^e   Jaćimović, Goran ^a   Nikolić Djorić, Emilija ^a  

^a University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^d SLOVAK HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adverse weather conditions; Climate yield correlations; Crop models; Yield prediction; Yield simulations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTIVATION; METEOROLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVERSE WEATHER; CLIMATE-YIELD CORRELATIONS; CROP MODEL; YIELD PREDICTION; YIELD SIMULATIONS;

CROPS;

AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; GROWTH RESPONSE; MAIZE; WHEAT;

AUSTRIA; CROATIA; SERBIA; SLOVAKIA; SWEDEN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84919776146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos5041020     Document Type: Article

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