2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Spatial Scale Issues in Interpreting ENSO Impacts on Cotton Production in the Southeastern U.S.
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534-3 Spatial Scale Issues in Interpreting ENSO Impacts on Cotton Production in the Southeastern U.S.



Monday, 6 October 2008
George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E
Joel O. Paz1, Axel Garcia y Garcia1, Clyde W. Fraisse2, James W. Jones2 and Gerrit Hoogenboom1, (1)The University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment St., Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept., Griffin, GA 30223-1797
(2)University of Florida, 239 Rogers Hall, P. O. Box 110570, Gainesville, FL 32611-0570
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can cause significant impacts on crop production around the world. Determining the magnitude of positive or negative effects of ENSO on crop yields may depend on the spatial scale, e.g. county, crop reporting district, or region, on which a particular interpretation of ENSO is based on. Such interpretation maybe rendered invalid, especially when there is a spatial scale mismatch between analysis and application. This paper attempts to address the issue of spatial scale in analyzing the impacts of ENSO on cotton production in the Southeastern U.S.
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