The effect of spatial scale of climatic change scenarios on simulated maize, winter wheat, and rice production in the Southeastern United States

Climatic Change

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 37-72

  Tsvetsinskaya, E A ^a,b   Mearns, L O ^b   Mavromatis, T ^c   Gao, W ^d   McDaniel, L ^b   Downton, M W ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CROP MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

(SOUTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0142245798     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026056215847     Document Type: Article

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