Impacts of extreme weather on wheat and maize in France: Evaluating regional crop simulations against observed data

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 751-765

  van der Velde, Marijn ^a,b   Tubiello, Francesco N ^c   Vrieling, Anton ^d   Bouraoui, Fayçal ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION RESPONSE; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CAUSAL RELATIONS; CRITICAL FACTORS; CROP DAMAGES; CROP MODEL; CROP SIMULATIONS; CROP YIELD; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WEATHER; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HEAT STRESS; HEAT WAVES; HEAVY RAINS; IN-LINE; MAIZE YIELD; MODEL REPRESENTATION; OBSERVED DATA; PLANT GROWTH; REGIONAL LEVELS; REGIONAL SCALE; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SIMULATED RESULTS; SOIL DYNAMICS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; WET CONDITIONS; WHEAT YIELD;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DROUGHT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AMSR-E; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; MAIZE; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER; WHEAT;

FRANCE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84863503791     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0368-2     Document Type: Article

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