Spatio-temporal downscaling of gridded crop model yield estimates based on machine learning
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Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are essential tools for estimating agricultural crop yields and externalities at large scales, typically at coarse spatial resolutions. Higher resolution estimates are required for robust agricultural assessments at regional and local scales, where the applicability of GGCMs is often limited by low data availability and high computational demand. An approach to bridge this gap is the application of meta-models trained on GGCM output data to covariates of high spatial resolution. In this study, we explore two machine learning approaches – extreme gradient boosting and random forests - to develop meta-models for the prediction of crop model outputs at fine spatial resolutions. Machine learning algorithms are trained on global scale maize simulations of a GGCM and exemplary applied to the extent of Mexico at a finer spatial resolution. Results show very high accuracy with R²>0.96 for predictions of maize yields as well as the hydrologic externalities evapotranspiration and crop available water with also low mean bias in all cases. While limited sets of covariates such as annual climate data alone provide satisfactory results already, a comprehensive set of predictors covering annual, growing season, and monthly climate data is required to obtain high performance in reproducing climate-driven inter-annual crop yield variability. The findings presented herein provide a first proof of concept that machine learning methods are highly suitable for building crop meta-models for spatio-temporal downscaling and indicate potential for further developments towards scalable crop model emulators.
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Outputs with high resolution may be aggregated via clustering methods to provide insights, while at coarser resolution, statistical downscaling can help to disaggregate data to an appropriate spatial resolution, as seen in applications such as crop yield, wind speed or surface temperature.
“Outputs with high resolution may be aggregated via clustering methods to provide insights [183], while at coarser resolution, statistical downscaling can help to disaggregate data to an appropriate spatial resolution, as seen in applications such as crop yield [249], wind speed [479] or surface temperature [481].”
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- Authors
- Folberth, C., Baklanov, A., Balkovič, J., Skalský, R., Khabarov, N., & Obersteiner, M.
- Affiliations
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics (RU)
- Corresponding author
- Folberth, C.
- Venue
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 264
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 0168-1923 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2895348292
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12
- FWCI
- 11.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ddd.uab.cat
- Licence
- Locations
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (publishedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- European Research Council (ERC-2013-SynG-610028 Imbalance-P)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Smart Agriculture and AI
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Keywords
- gridded crop models, crop yield prediction, meta-model, maize yield, extreme gradient boosting, random forest, evapotranspiration, Mexico
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