Full access evaluating the sensitivity of agricultural model performance to different climate inputs

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 579-594

  Glotter, Michael J ^a   Moyer, Elisabeth J ^a   Ruane, Alex C ^b   Elliott, Joshua W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bias; Crop growth; Data processing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CROPS; DATA HANDLING; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

AGROTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; BIAS; CROP GROWTH; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ARID REGION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MAIZE;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84961680191     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0120.1     Document Type: Article

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