A climatological analysis on the recent declining trend of rice quality in Japan

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-337

  OKADa, Masashi ^a   Hayashi, Yousay ^a   Iizumi, Toshichika ^b   Yokozawa, Masayuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; First class rice; Global warming; High surface air temperature; Insufficient solar radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053545421     PISSN: 00218588     EISSN: 18810136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.65.4.2     Document Type: Article

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