Improving the use of crop models for risk assessment and climate change adaptation

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 159, Issue , 2018, Pages 296-306

  Challinor, Andrew J ^a,b   Müller, Christoph ^c   Asseng, Senthold ^d   Deva, Chetan ^a   Nicklin, Kathryn Jane ^a   Wallach, Daniel ^e   Vanuytrecht, Eline ^f   Whitfield, Stephen ^a   Ramirez Villegas, Julian ^a,b   Koehler, Ann Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change impacts; Climate models; Crop model; Risk assessment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 85028317652     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2017.07.010     Document Type: Article

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