Calibration and validation of the hybrid-maize crop model for regional analysis and application over the U.S. corn belt

Earth Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Liu, Xing ^a   Andresen, Jeff ^b   Yang, Haishun ^c   Niyogi, Dev ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climatology; Crop growth; Land surface model; Regional effects

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; GRAIN GROWTH; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; REGIONAL PLANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CROP GROWTH; FACTORIAL DESIGN APPROACH; FIELD-SCALE SIMULATION; LAND SURFACE MODELING; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; REGIONAL EFFECTS;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CROP YIELD; HYBRID; LAND SURFACE; MAIZE; MODEL VALIDATION;

BONDVILLE; CORN BELT; ILLINOIS; MEAD; NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84940529655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-15-0005.1     Document Type: Article

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