Effects of automatic multi-objective optimization of crop models on corn yield reproducibility in the U.S.A.

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 322, Issue , 2016, Pages 124-137

  Tatsumi, Kenichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corn yield; EPIC; Multi objective complex evolution calibration; Reliability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; CORN YIELDS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INTEGRATED CLIMATE MODELS; EPIC; MULTI-OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84952673764     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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