Modeling the impacts of climate change on irrigated corn production in the Central Great Plains

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 110, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-108

  Islam, Adlul ^a,e   Ahuja, Lajpat R ^a   Garcia, Luis A ^b   Ma, Liwang ^a   Saseendran, Anapalli S ^a,c   Trout, Thomas J ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR EASTERN REGION   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Corn yield; Evapotranspiration; Multi model scenarios; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CORN YIELDS; CROP PRODUCTION; CURRENT YIELDS; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; ELEVATED CO; EMISSION SCENARIO; GROWING PERIOD; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; IRRIGATED CORN; IRRIGATION WATERS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODEL (RZWQM2); WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CULTIVATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

COLORADO; GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861011611     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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