Agroclimatology [Hardcover]

Can we unlock resilience to climate stress by better understanding linkages between the environment and biological systems? Agroclimatology allows us to explore how different processes determine plant response to climate and how climate drives the distribution of crops and their productivity. Editors Jerry L. Hatfield, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, and John H. Prueger have taken a comprehensive view of agroclimatology to assist and challenge researchers in this important area of study. Major themes include: principles of energy exchange and climatology, understanding climate change and agriculture, linkages of specific biological systems to climatology, the context of pests and diseases, methods of agroclimatology, and the application of agroclimatic principles to problem-solving in agriculture.Solar, Net, and Photosynthetic Radiation
J. Mark Blonquist Jr. Bruce Bugbee 1

Air Temperature
J. Mark Blonquist Jr. Bruce Bugbee 51

Soil Temperature and Heat Flux
Thomas J. Sauer, Xiaoyang Peng 73

Atmospheric Humidity
John M. Baker, Timothy J. Griffis 95

A Brief Overview of Approaches for Measuring Evapotranspiration
J.G. Alfieri, W.P. Kustas, M.C. Anderson 109

Photosynthesis
Elizabeth Ainsworth 129

Biological Linkages to Climatology
Jerry L. Hatfield, Erica Kistner-Thomas, Christian Dold 153

Modeling the Effects of Genotypic and Environmental Variation on Maize Phenology: The Phenology Subroutine of the AgMaize Crop Model
Matthijs Tollenaar, Kofikuma Dzotsi, Saratha Kumudini, Kenneth Boote, Keru Chen, Jerry Hatfield, James W. Jones, Jon I. Lizaso, R.L. Nielsen, Peter Thomison, Dennis J. Timlin, Oscar Valentinuz, Tony J. Vyn, HlÓ(