Comparing estimates of climate change impacts from process-based and statistical crop models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lobell, David B ^a   Asseng, Senthold ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

crop yield models; global warming; statistical models

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROPS; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COMMON DIFFERENCES; CROP YIELD; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ABIOTIC FACTOR; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85011320903     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa518a     Document Type: Article

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