Session 1 Influence of Changing Climate Conditions on Agriculture

Monday, 12 May 2014: 8:25 AM-10:00 AM
Bellmont A (Crowne Plaza Portland Downtown Convention Center Hotel)
Host: 31st Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
Joseph G. Alfieri, USDA/ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD

While focusing on all components of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system, the objective of this theme would be twofold: 1) discuss the measurement and modeling carbon, water, and other scalar fluxes under both current and future climate conditions; and 2) discuss the implication of changing climate for agricultural and forest management practices, crop productivity, and resource, especially food, security.

Papers:
8:25 AM
Welcoming Remarks

1.1
Impact Analysis of Climate Change in North-West India for Crop Planning and Management — A Case Study in Reference to the Rainfall

8:45 AM
1.2
Forecasting the Yield of Major Grain Crops across Canada with the Integrated Canadian Crop Yield Forecaster
Yinsuo Zhang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, ON, Canada; and A. Chipanshi
Audio File
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (599.2 kB)

9:00 AM
1.3
Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Staple Food Crops in Different Agro-Climatic Zones
Valentina Mereu, University of Sassari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, IAFENT Division, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano, A. Gallo, and G. Carboni

1.4
Investigate Ecosystem Resiliency and Vulnerability under Extreme Event using Multi-Land Surface Models

9:30 AM
1.5
Subsurface Drip Irrigation for Wet Season Rice Production Under Climatic Variability in India
Y. A. Rajwade, Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Kharagpur, India; and D. K. Swain and K. N. Tiwari
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
1.6
Fifty Years of Evaporation and Environment — Successes, Failures and Challenges for the Penman-Monteith Equation
Michael Unsworth, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Recorded Presentation

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