ENSO classification indices and summer crop yields in the Southeastern USA

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 817-826

  Royce, Frederick S ^a   Fraisse, Clyde W ^a   Baigorria, Guillermo A ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; ENSO; JMA; Multivariate ENSO Index; Southeast USA; Summer crop forecast

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CEREAL; CROP YIELD; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INDEX METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

UNITED STATES;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955628565     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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