Climate variability and the U.S. corn belt: Enso and AO episode-dependent hydroclimatic feedbacks to corn production at regional and local scales

Earth Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-32

  Kellner, Olivia ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Arctic oscillation; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; Seasonal variability; Southern oscillation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MAIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CORN BELT; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84937036560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-14-0031.1     Document Type: Article

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