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Improving The Validation Of Model-Simulated Crop Yield Response To Climate Change: An Application To The Epic Model* Jour. Ser. No. 11339 Nebraska Ag. Res. Div., William E. Easterling, Xiafen Chen, Cynthia Hays, James R, Brandle, Hehui Zang Jun 1996

Improving The Validation Of Model-Simulated Crop Yield Response To Climate Change: An Application To The Epic Model* Jour. Ser. No. 11339 Nebraska Ag. Res. Div., William E. Easterling, Xiafen Chen, Cynthia Hays, James R, Brandle, Hehui Zang

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Crop models have been used extensively to simulate yield response to various scenarios of climate change. Such simulations have been inadequately validated, limiting their utility in policy analysis. In this research, it is argued that the performance of crop models during recent years of extreme weather conditions relative to current normals may give a better indication of the validity of model simulations of crop yields in response to climate change than performance during the full range of climate conditions (as is done now). Twenty years of the climate record (1971-1990) are separated into different growing season temperature and precipitation classes …


Surface Exchange Of Water Vapour Between An Open Sphagnum Fen And The Atmosphere, S. B. Verma Jan 1996

Surface Exchange Of Water Vapour Between An Open Sphagnum Fen And The Atmosphere, S. B. Verma

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Conifer Shoot Bidirectional Scattering: Methodology And Preliminary Results, E.A. Walter-Shea, M.A. Mesarch Jan 1996

Conifer Shoot Bidirectional Scattering: Methodology And Preliminary Results, E.A. Walter-Shea, M.A. Mesarch

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Local Effect Of Intermittency On The Inertial Subrange Energy Spectrum Of The Atmospheric Surface Layer, Jozsef Szilagyi, Gabriel G. Katul, Marc B. Parlange, John D. Albertson, Anthony T. Cahill Jan 1996

The Local Effect Of Intermittency On The Inertial Subrange Energy Spectrum Of The Atmospheric Surface Layer, Jozsef Szilagyi, Gabriel G. Katul, Marc B. Parlange, John D. Albertson, Anthony T. Cahill

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Scale Issues In Soil Moisture Modelling: Problems And Prospects, Rezaul Mahmood Jan 1996

Scale Issues In Soil Moisture Modelling: Problems And Prospects, Rezaul Mahmood

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Soil moisture storage is an important component of the hydrological cycle and plays a key role in land-surface-atmosphere interaction. The soil-moisture storage equation in this study considers precipitation as an input and soil moisture as a residual term for runoff and evapotranspiration. A number of models have been developed to estimate soil moisture storage and the components of the soil-moisture storage equation. A detailed discussion of the implication of the scale of application of these models reports that it is not possible to extrapolate processes and their estimates from the small to the large scale. It is also noted that …