Onset and end of the rainy season and corn yields in São Paulo State, Brazil

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 69-76

  Franchito, S H ^a   Brahmananda Rao, V ^a   Gan, M A ^a   Santo, C M E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corn yields; El Ni o La Ni a; Rainy season in s o paulo state

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROP DAMAGE; CROP YIELD; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLASH FLOOD; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; LANDSLIDE; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77950968677     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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