The intense 2007-2009 drought in the Fertile Crescent: Impacts and associated atmospheric circulation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1245-1257

  Trigo, Ricardo M ^a,b   Gouveia, Célia M ^a,c   Barriopedro, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Drought; Fertile Crescent; Lake level; NDVI; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

IRAQ; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY;

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77954760111     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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