Climate change, the monsoon, and rice yield in India

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 411-424

  Auffhammer, Maximilian ^a,b   Ramanathan, V ^c   Vincent, Jeffrey R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME RAINFALL; GROWING SEASON; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RAINFED; RICE CROPS; RICE YIELD; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOOD DAMAGE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; GROWING SEASON; MONSOON; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PADDY FARMING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIA;

EID: 84856746611     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0208-4     Document Type: Article

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