Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on rice production in Mainland China

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 357-372

  Xia, Lili ^a   Robock, Alan ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; AGROTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; MAINLAND CHINAS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; RICE PRODUCTION; SIMULATION MODEL; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

NUCLEAR WEAPONS;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NUCLEAR WEAPON; RICE; SOOT; TROPOSPHERE;

SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84871442907     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0475-8     Document Type: Article

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