Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Iizumi, Toshichika ^a   Luo, Jing Jia ^b   Challinor, Andrew J ^c,d   Sakurai, Gen ^a   Yokozawa, Masayuki ^e   Sakuma, Hirofumi ^f   Brown, Molly E ^g   Yamagata, Toshio ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CROP YIELD; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PRICE DETERMINATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CROP PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CROP YEILD; HARVEST; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; RICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOYBEAN; WHEAT; CATERING SERVICE; CROP; HUMAN; TEMPERATURE;

RAIN; SNOW;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; ORYZA SATIVA; RAIN; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84900854601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4712     Document Type: Article

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