Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? the importance of temperature relative to precipitation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Lobell, David B ^a   Burke, Marshall B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food production; Global warming; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 54749144203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034007     Document Type: Article

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