Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 197-202

  Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^a,b   Tubiello, Francesco N ^b   Goldberg, Richard ^b   Mills, Evan ^c   Bloomfield, Janine ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Environmental Defense   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Crop damage; Extreme events; Insurance; Maize production; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP DAMAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; METHODOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036800857     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(02)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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