Modeling El Niño Southern Oscillation climate impact on Mexican agriculture

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) induces climate anomalies in Mexico that have significant impacts on rain-fed agriculture.This research simulates ENSO scenarios to identify climate anomalies during El Niño and El Viejo years (also known asLa Niña years), and fluctuations in maize and bean crop y...

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Autores: Alma Delia Báez González, César Izaurralde, Norman J. Rosenberg, Jaime Salinas García, Mario Tiscareño López
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias
Repositorio:Redalyc-INIFAP
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:56842305
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=56842305
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias de la Tierra
ENSO
crops
erosion
simulation
temperature
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Sumario:El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) induces climate anomalies in Mexico that have significant impacts on rain-fed agriculture.This research simulates ENSO scenarios to identify climate anomalies during El Niño and El Viejo years (also known asLa Niña years), and fluctuations in maize and bean crop yield. Daily weather data from 275 meteorological stations locatedthroughout the country were used to distinguish local climate conditions under El Niño (EN), Strong El Niño (SEN), and El Viejo(EV) from those of Neutral years, based on the Thermal Anomaly Index of sea surface water of the Pacific ocean. Crop yields wereassessed with a process-based crop growth model under weather generation using climate parameters of each ENSO scenario. Themodeling scheme allowed the identification of regions of Mexico sensitive to ENSO events and susceptible to crop yield changesas a result of deviations in air temperature and precipitation occurring during the crop growing season in EN, SEN and EV years.