Spatial and temporal uncertainty of crop yield aggregations

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 10-21

  Porwollik, Vera ^a   Müller, Christoph ^a   Elliott, Joshua ^b,c   Chryssanthacopoulos, James ^c   Iizumi, Toshichika ^d   Ray, Deepak K ^e   Ruane, Alex C ^b,f   Arneth, Almut ^g   Balkovič, Juraj ^h,i   Ciais, Philippe ^j   Deryng, Delphine ^b,c   Folberth, Christian ^h,k   Izaurralde, Roberto C ^l,m   Jones, Curtis D ^l   Khabarov, Nikolay ^h   Lawrence, Peter J ⁿ   Liu, Wenfeng ^o   Pugh, Thomas A M ^g,p   Reddy, Ashwan ^l   Sakurai, Gen ^d   Schmid, Erwin ^q   Wang, Xuhui ^j,r   de Wit, Allard ^s   Wu, Xiuchen ^j   more..

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

ⁱ Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^j LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^m TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^o SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^r PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^s WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

Aggregation uncertainty; Crop yields; Global crop model; Gridded data; Harvested area

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; HARVESTING; MAIZE; RICE; SOYBEAN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

BOLIVIA; INDIA; JAPAN; PAKISTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; URUGUAY; VIET NAM;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85005982812     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2016.08.006     Document Type: Article

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