Land-surface initialisation improves seasonal climate prediction skill for maize yield forecast

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Ceglar, Andrej ^a   Toreti, Andrea ^a   Prodhomme, Chloe ^b   Zampieri, Matteo ^a   Turco, Marco ^c   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^b,d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; EASTERN EUROPE; FRANCE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; ITALY; PLANT YIELD; PREDICTION; SKILL; SUMMER; BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD GRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; SEASON;

BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHTS; EDIBLE GRAIN; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85040928756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19586-6     Document Type: Article

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