Crop models capture the impacts of climate variability on corn yield

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3356-3363

  Niyogi, Dev ^a,b   Liu, Xing ^a   Andresen, Jeff ^c   Song, Yang ^d   Jain, Atul K ^d   Kellner, Olivia ^b   Takle, Eugene S ^e   Doering, Otto C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate information; crop models; ENSO; U.S. Corn Belt; useful to useable

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; DIGITAL STORAGE; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CROP MODEL; ENSO; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; USEFUL TO USEABLE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MAIZE;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84930475710     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063841     Document Type: Article

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