Global gridded crop model evaluation: Benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1403-1422

  Müller, Christoph ^a   Elliott, Joshua ^b,c   Chryssanthacopoulos, James ^b,c   Arneth, Almut ^d   Balkovic, Juraj ^e,f   Ciais, Philippe ^g   Deryng, Delphine ^b,c   Folberth, Christian ^e,h   Glotter, Michael ^b   Hoek, Steven ⁱ   Iizumi, Toshichika ^j   Izaurralde, Roberto C ^k,l   Jones, Curtis ^k   Khabarov, Nikolay ^e   Lawrence, Peter ^m   Liu, Wenfeng ⁿ   Olin, Stefan ^o   Pugh, Thomas A M ^d,p   Ray, Deepak K ^q   Reddy, Ashwan ^k   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^c,r   Ruane, Alex C ^c,r   Sakurai, Gen ^j   Schmid, Erwin ^s   Skalsky, Rastislav ^e   Song, Carol X ^t   Wang, Xuhui ^g,u   De Wit, Allard ⁱ   Yang, Hong ^n,v   more..

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^l TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁿ SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^o LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

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

^t Purdue University   (United States)

^u PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; BENCHMARKING; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; MODEL TEST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICE; SOYBEAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WHEAT;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85017169636     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1403-2017     Document Type: Article

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