Seasonal climate forecasts provide more definitive and accurate crop yield predictions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 260-261, Issue , 2018, Pages 247-254

  Brown, Jaclyn N ^a   Hochman, Zvi ^a   Holzworth, Dean ^a   Horan, Heidi ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

APSIM; GCM; Grain yield forecast; Seasonal climate forecast

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85048817049     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.06.001     Document Type: Article

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