Spatial sampling of weather data for regional crop yield simulations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 220, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-115

  van Bussel, Lenny G J ^a,b   Ewert, Frank ^a   Zhao, Gang ^a   Hoffmann, Holger ^a   Enders, Andreas ^a   Wallach, Daniel ^c   Asseng, Senthold ^d   Baigorria, Guillermo A ^e   Basso, Bruno ^f   Biernath, Christian ^g   Cammarano, Davide ^d,l   Chryssanthacopoulos, James ^h   Constantin, Julie ^c   Elliott, Joshua ⁱ   Glotter, Michael ⁱ   Heinlein, Florian ^g   Kersebaum, Kurt Christian ^j   Klein, Christian ^g   Nendel, Claas ^j   Priesack, Eckart ^g   Raynal, Hélène ^c   Romero, Consuelo C ^e,m   Rötter, Reimund P ^k   Specka, Xenia ^j   Tao, Fulu ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^k FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^l SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^m Next Season Systems LLC   (United States)

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Author keywords

Regional crop simulations; Stratified sampling; Upscaling; Winter wheat; Yield estimates

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CROP YIELD; HETEROGENEITY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WHEAT;

GERMANY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84955063049     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.01.014     Document Type: Article

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