Understanding the weather signal in national crop-yield variability

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 605-616

  Frieler, Katja ^a   Schauberger, Bernhard ^a   Arneth, Almut ^b   Balkovič, Juraj ^c,d   Chryssanthacopoulos, James ^e,f   Deryng, Delphine ^e,g   Elliott, Joshua ^e,f   Folberth, Christian ^c   Khabarov, Nikolay ^c   Müller, Christoph ^a   Olin, Stefan ^h   Pugh, Thomas A M ^b,i   Schaphoff, Sibyll ^a   Schewe, Jacob ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^j   Warszawski, Lila ^a   Levermann, Anders ^a,k,l  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^e NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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

^k UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^l International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

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Author keywords

crop yield variability; weather sensitivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RICE; WATER STRESS; WEATHER;

ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; HUNGARY; ROMANIA; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85021158356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000525     Document Type: Article

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