Is a 10-day rainfall forecast of value in dry-land wheat cropping?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 216, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-176

  Asseng, Senthold ^a   McIntosh, Peter C ^b   Thomas, Geoff ^c   Ebert, Elizabeth E ^d   Khimashia, Nirav ^e  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

APSIM; Dry sowing; Forecast skill; Late season rainfall; Rainfall variability; Short term rainfall forecast

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; DECISION ANALYSIS; DRYLAND FARMING; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NITROGEN; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOIL TYPE; SOWING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84945948915     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.10.012     Document Type: Article

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