Importance of Sky Conditions on the Record 2004 Midwestern Crop Yields

Physical Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-111

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Changnon, David ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn Belt; Crop yields; Midwest; Sky conditions

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SKY; CROP YIELD; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 26644445686     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.26.2.99     Document Type: Article

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