DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY IMPACTS ON CLIMATE AND CROP YIELDS Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractThis article examines the effects of ocean-related decadal climate variability (DCV) phenomena on climate and the effects of both climate shifts and independent DCV events on crop yields. We address three DCV phenomena: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Tropical Atlantic Sea-Surface Temperature Gradient (TAG), and the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). We estimate the joint effect of these DCV phenomena on the mean, variance, and skewness of crop yield distributions. We found regionally differentiated impacts of DCV phenomena on growing degree days, precipitation, and extreme weather events, which in turn alter distributions of U.S. regional crop yields.

authors

• Mccarl, Bruce
• Wu, Ximing

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS

author list (cited authors)

• Jithitikulchai, T., Mccarl, B. A., & Wu, X.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn||Mccarl, Bruce A||Wu, Ximing

publication date

• February 2019

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics  Journal

keywords

• Decadal Climate Variability
• Mean
• Skewness
• Variance
• Yield Distributions

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/aae.2018.25

start page

• 104

end page

• 125

volume

• 51

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aae.2018.25

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action