Crop yield as a bioclimatic index of El Niño impact in Europe: Crop forecast implications

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 198-199, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-52

  Capa Morocho, Mirian ^a,b   Rodríguez Fonseca, Belén ^a,c   Ruiz Ramos, Margarita ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic index; Crop forecasting; Crop model; El Ni o teleconnections in Europe; Potential yield; Seasonal crop yield prediction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; EL NINO; FORECASTING METHOD; NONLINEARITY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84906230479     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.07.012     Document Type: Review

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