El Niño-southern oscillation impacts on rice production in Luzon, the Philippines

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1718-1724

  Roberts, Martha G ^a,c   Dawe, David ^b   Falcon, Walter P ^a   Naylor, Rosamond L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY SEASONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; PHILIPPINES; RAIN-FED SYSTEM; RAINFED; RICE PRODUCTION; RICE YIELD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIMING DEVICES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ASIA; EURASIA; LUZON; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 70349667287     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1628.1     Document Type: Article

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