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Area of Science:

  • Agricultural Science
  • Climate Science
  • Environmental Science

Background:

  • Extreme heat events demonstrably harm U.S. crop yields.
  • Limited research has explored the effects of intra-seasonal weather variability and temperature-precipitation interactions on crop production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the significance of analyzing temperature exposures at a finer temporal scale within the growing season.
  • To quantify the impact of monthly temperature and precipitation fluctuations on maize yields in the U.S. Corn Belt.

Main Methods:

  • Employed variable selection techniques for climate-yield relationship modeling.
  • Utilized Bayesian estimation methods to model maize yield responses to climate variables.
  • Compared models using disaggregated monthly weather data against those using aggregated seasonal data.

Main Results:

  • Models incorporating within-growing season monthly weather variations outperformed those using aggregated seasonal data.
  • Bayesian estimation demonstrated effectiveness in capturing complex climate-yield interactions.
  • Predicted warming impacts on maize yields were smaller when using disaggregated monthly data compared to aggregated data.

Conclusions:

  • Disaggregating temperature exposures within the growing season is essential for accurate crop yield impact assessments.
  • Temperature effects on maize yields are non-additive across different months.
  • Finer-scale climate data analysis provides more nuanced predictions of agricultural impacts under changing climate conditions.