The Exceptional 2018 European Water Seesaw Calls for Action on Adaptation

Earth's Future

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 652-663

  Toreti, Andrea ^a   Belward, Alan ^a   Perez Dominguez, Ignacio ^a   Naumann, Gustavo ^a   Luterbacher, Jürg ^b   Cronie, Ottmar ^c   Seguini, Lorenzo ^a   Manfron, Giacinto ^a   Lopez Lozano, Raul ^a   Baruth, Bettina ^a   van den Berg, Maurits ^a   Dentener, Frank ^a   Ceglar, Andrej ^a   Chatzopoulos, Thomas ^a   Zampieri, Matteo ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agriculture; climate extremes; climate projections; drought; Europe; water seesaw

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CROP PLANT; DROUGHT; GROWING SEASON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 85067691847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001170     Document Type: Article

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