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COAPS Scientists Working to Improve Crop Yield Forecasts
July 2009: COAPS scientists Dong-Wook Shin, Young-Kwon Lim, Steve Cocke, Tim LaRow, and James O'Brien recently participated in a study assessing crop yield simulations using various seasonal climate data. For the study, the scientists evaluated the sensitivity of a crop model to different seasonal climate data for maize and peanut yield simulations. They found that dynamically and statistically downscaled climate data improved the crop yield simulations in comparison to the commonly used El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based historical data. The scientists are now working to further improve crop yield predictions through the inclusion of more accurate rainfall data and the development of a coupled climate-crop model system.
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