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Methodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change

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    SYSNO ASEP0546888
    Document TypeJ - Journal Article
    R&D Document TypeJournal Article
    Subsidiary JČlánek ve WOS
    TitleMethodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change
    Author(s) Stella, T. (DE)
    Webber, H. (DE)
    Olesen, Jorgen Eivind (UEK-B) RID, SAI, ORCID
    Ruane, A. C. (US)
    Fronzek, S. (FI)
    Bregaglio, S. (IT)
    Mamidanna, S. (DE)
    Bindi, M. (IT)
    Collins, B. (AU)
    Faye, B. (FR)
    Ferrise, R. (IT)
    Fodor, N. (DE)
    Gabaldon-Leal, C. (ES)
    Jabloun, M. (GB)
    Kersebaum, Kurt Christian (UEK-B) ORCID, SAI, RID
    Lizaso, J. (ES)
    Lorite, I. J. (ES)
    Manceau, L. (FR)
    Martre, P. (FR)
    Nendel, C. (DE)
    Rodriguez, A. (ES)
    Ruiz-Ramos, M. (ES)
    Semenov, M. A. (GB)
    Stratonovitch, P. (GB)
    Ewert, F. (DE)
    Number of authors25
    Article number104033
    Source TitleEnvironmental Research Letters. - : Institute of Physics Publishing - ISSN 1748-9326
    Roč. 16, č. 10 (2021)
    Number of pages17 s.
    Languageeng - English
    CountryGB - United Kingdom
    Keywordschange impacts ; compound dry ; crop yields ; variability ; environment ; irrigation ; biases ; climate risk assessment ; climate change impact ; wheat ; maize ; crop model ; relative distribution
    Subject RIVDG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology
    OECD categoryClimatic research
    R&D ProjectsEF16_019/0000797 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
    Research InfrastructureCzeCOS III - 90123 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
    Method of publishingOpen access
    Institutional supportUEK-B - RVO:86652079
    UT WOS000704140500001
    EID SCOPUS85117701182
    DOI10.1088/1748-9326/ac2196
    AnnotationWhile the understanding of average impacts of climate change on crop yields is improving, few assessments have quantified expected impacts on yield distributions and the risk of yield failures. Here we present the relative distribution as a method to assess how the risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress (measured in terms of return period between yields falling 15% below previous five year Olympic average yield) responds to changes of the underlying yield distributions under climate change. Relative distributions are used to capture differences in the entire yield distribution between baseline and climate change scenarios, and to further decompose them into changes in the location and shape of the distribution. The methodology is applied here for the case of rainfed wheat and grain maize across Europe using an ensemble of crop models under three climate change scenarios with simulations conducted at 25 km resolution. Under climate change, maize generally displayed shorter return periods of yield failures (with changes under RCP 4.5 between0.3 and 0 years compared to the baseline scenario) associated with a shift of the yield distribution towards lower values and changes in shape of the distribution that further reduced the frequency of high yields. This response was prominent in the areas characterized in the baseline scenario by high yields and relatively long return periods of failure. Conversely, for wheat, yield failures were projected to become less frequent under future scenarios (with changes in the return period of0.1 to +0.4 years under RCP 4.5) and were associated with a shift of the distribution towards higher values and a change in shape increasing the frequency of extreme yields at both ends. Our study offers an approach to quantify the changes in yield distributions that drive crop yield failures. Actual risk assessments additionally require models that capture the variety of drivers determining crop yield variability and scenario climate input data that samples the range of probable climate variation.
    WorkplaceGlobal Change Research Institute
    ContactNikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268
    Year of Publishing2022
    Electronic addresshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2196
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