The autumn break for cropping in southeast Australia: Trends, synoptic influences and impacts on wheat yield

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2012-2026

  Pook, Michael ^a   Lisson, Shaun ^b,c   Risbey, James ^a   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^d   McIntosh, Peter ^a   Rebbeck, Melissa ^e  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Autumn break; Cutoff low; Rainfall; Wheat crops

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AUSTRALIA; AUTUMN BREAK; AVERAGE YIELD; CUT-OFF LOW; FARMING SYSTEM; GROWING SEASON; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; RAINFALL CONDITION; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL EVENT; SOWING DATE; SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS; TOTAL RAINFALL; WHEAT YIELD; YIELD RESPONSE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; DROUGHT; MODEL STRUCTURES; SIMULATORS;

RAIN;

AUTUMN; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; RAINFALL; SOWING DATE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WHEAT; YIELD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 71449125049     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1833     Document Type: Article

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