David H. Fleisher1, Bruno Condori2, Roberto Quiroz3, Ashok K. Alva4, Senthold Asseng5, Carolina Barreda3, Marco Bindi6, Kenneth J. Boote7, Roberto Ferrise6, Angelinus C. Franke8, P.M. Govindakrishnan9, Dieudonne Harahagazwe10, Gerrit Hoogenboom11, Naresh S. Kumar12, Paolo Merante13, Claas Nendel14, Jørgen Eivind Olesen15, Phillip Parker16, Dirk Raes17, Rubi M Raymundo Carhuapoma18, Alex C Ruane19, Claudio O. Stockle20, Iwan Supit21, Eline Vanuytrecht17, Joost Wolf22 and Prem Woli23, (1)10300 Baltimore Avenue, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, US, (2)10300 Baltimore Avenue, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, (3)International Potato Center, Lima, Peru, (4)USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA, (5)221 Frazier Rogers Hall, PO Box 110570, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (6)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (7)Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (8)Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, (9)Central Potato Research Institue, Shimla, India, (10)Production Systems and the Environment, CIP SSA, Nairobi, Kenya, (11)University of Florida, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, US, (12)Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, New Delhi, India, (13)Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (14)ZALF - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muencheberg, Germany, (15)Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, (16)Institute of Landscape Systems Analysis, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape, Muncheberg, Germany, (17)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium, (18)Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (19)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, (20)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (21)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (22)Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (23)Agricultural Weather Net Program, Washington State University, Pullman, WA