Assessing climate change effects on European crop yields using the Crop Growth Monitoring System and a weather generator

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-111

  Supit, I ^a   van Diepen, C A ^a   De Wit, A J W ^a   Wolf, J ^b   Kabat, P ^a,c   Baruth, B ^a   Ludwig, F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop yields; Maize; Potato; Sugar beet; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; MONITORING SYSTEM; POTATO; RAINFALL; SUGAR BEET; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WHEAT;

EUROPE;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84862175768     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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