Extending and improving regionalized winter wheat and silage maize yield regression models for Germany: Enhancing the predictive skill by panel definition through cluster analysis

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 216, Issue , 2016, Pages 68-81

  Conradt, Tobias ^a   Gornott, Christoph ^a   Wechsung, Frank ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Crop yield estimation; Germany; Multivariate regression; Silage maize; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; MODEL TEST; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILAGE; WHEAT; WINTER;

GERMANY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84944392170     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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