Assessing the value of seasonal climate forecast information through an end-to-end forecasting framework: Application to U.S. 2012 drought in central Illinois

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 6592-6609

  Shafiee Jood, Majid ^a   Cai, Ximing ^a   Chen, Ligang ^b   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b,c   Kumar, Praveen ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; DROUGHT; ETHANOL; FORECASTING;

DECISION MAKING MODELS; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; RAIN FED AGRICULTURE; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL FORECASTS; WEATHER PARAMETERS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85040642660     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015822     Document Type: Article

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