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Activity Number: 294
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: SSC
Abstract - #307954
Title: Bayesian Model Averaging for Improved Prediction of Soil Moisture and Crop Yield from Agro-Ecosystem Models
Author(s): Reza Hosseini*+ and Gabriela Espino-Hernandez and Nathaniel Kenneth Newlands
Companies: Simon Fraser University and The University of British Columbia and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Address: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Burnaby, V5A 1S6,
Keywords: Agriculture ; Bayesian ; Climate ; Prediction ; Uncertainty
Abstract:

Ecosystem models are applied in assessing environmental impacts, risks and resource decision-making. Reliability of a model for a given goal relies on reducing measurement, parameter and structural uncertainty. Crop yield and soil moisture are critical predictors required to assess the system resiliency (sensitivity, adaptability and vulnerability). We test whether Bayesian model averaging (BMA) improves ecosystem-scale predictions of crop productivity and soil water. Preliminary sensitivity analysis indicates that their predictions are most sensitive to climate variability at the seasonal-scale. We compare their predictive performance under historical climate variation at long-term cropping sites in Western North America. We examine the effectiveness of weighting BMA predictions to better inform model selection; for different application goals and data correlation structural assumptions


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