Impacts of potential climate change on selected agroclimatic indices in Atlantic Canada

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 329-343

  Bootsma, A ^a   Gameda, S ^a   McKenney, D W ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change scenarios; Crop heat units; Effective growing degree days; Spatial interpolation; Statistical downscaling; Water deficits

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744443770     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/S04-019     Document Type: Article

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