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 Hoogenboom7, Naresh S. Kumar11, Paolo Merante12, Claas Nendel13, Jørgen Eivind Olesen14, Phillip Parker15, Dirk Raes16, Rubi M Raymundo Carhuapoma7, Alex C Ruane17, Claudio O. Stockle18, Iwan Supit19, Eline Vanuytrecht16, Joost Wolf20 and Prem Woli21, (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)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)Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, New Delhi, India, (12)Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (13)ZALF - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muencheberg, Germany, (14)Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, (15)Institute of Landscape Systems Analysis, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape, Muncheberg, Germany, (16)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium, (17)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, (18)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (19)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (20)Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (21)Agricultural Weather Net Program, Washington State University, Pullman, WA