Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-479-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-479-2018
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09 May 2018
Research article |  | 09 May 2018

Changes in crop yields and their variability at different levels of global warming

Sebastian Ostberg, Jacob Schewe, Katelin Childers, and Katja Frieler

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Fast emulator of changes in crop yields at different levels of global warming S. Ostberg, J. Schewe, and K. Frieler https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194045

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It has been shown that regional temperature and precipitation changes in future climate change scenarios often scale quasi-linearly with global mean temperature change (∆GMT). We show that an important consequence of these physical climate changes, namely changes in agricultural crop yields, can also be described in terms of ∆GMT to a large extent. This makes it possible to efficiently estimate future crop yield changes for different climate change scenarios without need for complex models.
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