Recent climate and air pollution impacts on indian agriculture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 16319-16324

  Burney, Jennifer ^a   Ramanathan, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Agriculture; Climate impacts; India; Ozone

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RAIN;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWING SEASON; HARVEST; INDIA; INDIAN; PLANT PRODUCT; RICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHEAT; CROP; DRUG EFFECTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORYZA; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; TRENDS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FORMALDEHYDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIA; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORYZA; OZONE; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84911901963     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317275111     Document Type: Article

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