Probabilistic assessments of climate change impacts on durum wheat in the Mediterranean region

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1293-1302

  Ferrise, R ^a   Moriondo, M ^a   Bindi, M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THRESHOLD; WHEAT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 79955953723     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-1293-2011     Document Type: Article

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