Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Schauberger, Bernhard ^a   Archontoulis, Sotirios ^a   Arneth, Almut ^b   Balkovic, Juraj ^c,d   Ciais, Philippe ^e   Deryng, Delphine ^f   Elliott, Joshua ^f   Folberth, Christian ^c,g   Khabarov, Nikolay ^c   Müller, Christoph ^a,m   Pugh, Thomas A M ^b,h   Rolinski, Susanne ^a   Schaphoff, Sibyll ^a   Schmid, Erwin ⁱ   Wang, Xuhui ^j,k   Schlenker, Wolfram ^l   Frieler, Katja ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^e Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^f INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^k LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^l PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^m Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; SOYBEAN; WATER STRESS; WHEAT;

CROP; GROWING SEASON; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT YIELD; SIMULATION; SOYBEAN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER STRESS; WHEAT;

UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85010424118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13931     Document Type: Article

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