Davide Cammarano1, Reimund Rotter2, Senthold Asseng3, Frank Ewert4, Daniel Wallach5, Pierre Martre6, Jerry L Hatfield7, James W. Jones8, Cynthia Rosenzweig9, Alex Ruane9, Kenneth J Boote10, Peter J Thorburn11, Kurt C. Kersebaum12, Pramod K. Aggarwal13, Carlos Angulo14, Bruno Basso15, Patrick Bertuzzi16, Christian Biernath17, Nadine Brisson18, Andrew J Challinor19, Jordi Doltra20, Sebastian Gayler21, Richie Goldberg9, Lee Heng22, Josh E, Hooker23, Leslie Hunt24, Joachim Ingwersen25, Roberto Izaurralde26, Christoph Müller27, Naresh S. Kumar28, Claas Nendel29, Garry J O'Leary30, Jøgen Eivind Olesen31, Tom M. Osborne23, Taru Palosuo2, Eckart Priesack17, Dominique Ripoche18, Mikhail Semenov32, Iurii Shcherbak33, Pasquale Steduto34, Claudio O. Stockle35, Pierre Stratonovitch32, Thilo Streck36, Iwan Supit37, Fulu Tao38, Maria Travasso39, Katharina Waha27, Jeffrey W. White40 and Joost Wolf41, (1)Aarhus University, Tjele, Scotland, Denmark, (2)MTT Agrifood Research, Mikkeli, Finland, (3)221 Frazier Rogers Hall, PO Box 110570, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (4)University of Bonn, Bonn, GERMANY, (5)UMR 1248 AGIR, INRA - National Institute of Agronomic Research, Castanet Tolosan, FRANCE, (6)INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (7)Locked Bag 1797, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA, (8)Ag. and Bio. Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (9)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, (10)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (11)St. Lucia, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, (12)Research Platform Models and Simulation, ZALF - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muencheberg, GERMANY, (13)CGIAR,Research Program on Climate Change, and International Water Institute, New Delhi, India, (14)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (15)Earth and Environmental Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US, (16)INRAE, Avignon, France, (17)Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, (18)INRA, Avignon, France, (19)University of Leeds, Leeds, England, (20)Cantabrian Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Muriedas, Spain, (21)Water & Earth System Science (WESS) Competence Cluster, Tübingen, Germany, (22)International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Wien, Austria, (23)University of Reading, Reading, England, (24)University of Guelph, Kemptville, ON, Canada, (25)University of Hohenheim, Stuttgard, Germany, (26)University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (27)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (28)Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, New Delhi, India, (29)Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, GERMANY, (30)Department of Primary Industries, Horsham, Australia, (31)Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, (32)Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, England, (33)Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, (34)Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy, (35)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (36)Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgard, Germany, (37)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (38)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (39)INTA-CIRN, Castelar, Argentina, (40)University of Florida, Chandler, AZ, US, (41)Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands