Use of agro-climate ensembles for quantifying uncertainty and informing adaptation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2013, Pages 2-7

  Challinor, Andrew J ^a,b   Smith, Mark Stafford ^c   Thornton, Philip ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate models; Climate variability; Crop models; Crop yield; Ensembles; Food security; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; FOOD SECURITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872917820     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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