The Purdue Agro-climatic (PAC) dataset for the U.S. Corn Belt: Development and initial results

Climate Risk Management

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 61-72

  Liu, Xing ^a   Jacobs, Elin ^b   Kumar, Anil ^c   Biehl, Larry ^a   Andresen, Jeff ^d   Niyogi, Dev ^a,e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture meteorology; Agroclimatology; Crop models; Crop resiliency; Land Data Assimilation System; Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006337717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22120963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2016.10.005     Document Type: Article

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