Recent Advances in Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Cropping Systems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 7484
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop modelling; agriclimatology; climate impact assessment; climate change adaptation; agro-environmental impacts
Interests: climate change; climate extremes; atmospheric predictability; compound events; climate risk; climate change impacts
Interests: climate modeling; climate impact research; climate change adaptation; meteorology; crop model simulations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cropping production systems are inherently vulnerable to climate change and variability. Anthropogenic-driven global warming, associated with elevated CO2 concentration and accompanied by altered regional precipitation patterns, is expected to negatively affect local crop productivity and thus exacerbate food insecurities in many regions worldwide. Crop and climate models are essential tools to estimate the impacts of projected climate change and explore possible adaptation options. Such an exercise is beneficial for assessing regional food security prospects and provides crucial information to aid decision-making for local farmers and policymakers. However, such risk assessments are challenging because numerous sources of uncertainty exist, such as uncertainties from the trajectories of future greenhouse gas emissions, different climate model projections, downscaling methods and crop model structures and parameters, etc. Additionally, climate change effects are also dependent on the studied cropping system, time slice, target region, and current climate conditions. Therefore, accurate and robust assessments call for the need to embrace innovations and new approaches in quantifying and reducing these uncertainties.
This Special Issue focuses on developing novel methods for use in applications of agricultural (crop) and/or climate models that address uncertainties during climate change impact assessment. We are seeking good-quality interdisciplinary studies from a variety of disciplines, including disciplines of agro-environmental study, plant physiology, soil and cultivation, and computer science. We encourage the submission of studies and articles that explore the use of climate projections at different spatial and temporal scales and consider interactions between crop genotypes, environmental components, and management factors. Original research articles and reviews are accepted.
Dr. Chenyao Yang
Dr. Andrej Ceglar
Dr. Joao Carlos Andrade dos Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cropping systems
- climate change
- climate risk
- adaptation strategy
- agro-environmental impacts
- climate projections
- crop modelling
- impact assessment
- uncertainty assessment
- multi-model ensemble
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