Climate impacts on crop yields in Central Argentina. Adaptation strategies

ALFREDO LUIS ROLLA; MARIO N. NUÑEZ; SANTIAGO MEIRA; MARIA INES ORTIZ DE ZARATE; EDGARDO GUEVARA; GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ

Montpellier

Workshop; agMIP Global Workshop; 2016

agMIP

In this work the CASANDRA platform was used to estimated impacts and adaptations to future climate on regional crop yields of maize, wheat and soybean, considering the Pampas region as study area (that covers an area of 60 million hectares). The climate inputs to the platform were generated from the CCSM4 climate model of National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, USA), because it was regarded as the best model among 19 climate models from CMIP5 and CLARIS-LPB assessed for the present time in the region after a quantile-mapping bias correction using CRU (Climate Research Unit) as observations.