Growing-season rainfall and scenarios of future change in southeast Africa: Implications for cultivating maize

Climate Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 147-161

  Tadross, Mark ^a   Suarez, Pablo ^b   Lotsch, Alex ^c   Hachigonta, Sepo ^a   Mdoka, Marshall ^a   Unganai, Leonard ^d   Lucio, Filipe ^e   Kamdonyo, Donald ^f   Muchinda, Maurice ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d Zimbabwe Meteorological Services Department   (Zimbabwe)

^e Rua de Mukumbura 164   (Mozambique)

^f National Meteorological Service of Malawi   (Malawi)

^g Zambia Meteorological Department   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate change; Crops; Downscaling; Maize; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CRITICAL PERIODS; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DAILY RAINFALL; DOWN-SCALING; DRY SPELLS; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LOW DENSITY; MOZAMBIQUE; PHENOLOGICAL CYCLES; PLANTING DATE; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REGIONAL SCALE; RURAL AGRICULTURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; ZIMBABWE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DOWNSCALING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; PHENOLOGY; RAINFALL; RURAL ECONOMY;

AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 74349101546     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00821     Document Type: Article

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