Crop yields & climate 

Climate extremes and yields of wheat and maize 

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Photo: Rae Allen on Flickr
With colleagues from the DISCCRS early-career climate symposium, we have investigated effects of climate extremes on cereal yields in Iowa and India using a dynamic crop model. The paper is published in Journal of Climate. ​



Past research

I collaborated with colleagues at Stanford to develop empirical weather-based models of crop yields for twelve major California crops (Lobell et al., 2007, Climatic Change), which we used to project the impact of future climate change on crop yields (Lobell et al., 2006, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology), and forecast current yields earlier in the growing season and much more cheaply than was previously possible (Lobell et al., 2006, California Agriculture).