Emulating maize yields from global gridded crop models using statistical estimates

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2015, Pages 134-147

  Blanc, Elodie ^a   Sultan, Benjamin ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop model; Crop yields; Maize; Statistical model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; YIELD RESPONSE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84940182155     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.08.256     Document Type: Article

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