Climate prediction and agriculture: Summary and the way forward

Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Advances and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-13

  Sivakumar, M V K ^a   Hansen, J ^b  

^a WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

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EID: 77649100941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44650-7_1     Document Type: Chapter

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