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  Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios

Müller, C., Franke, J., Jägermeyr, J., Ruane, A. C., Elliott, J., Moyer, E., Heinke, J., Falloon, P., Folberth, C., Francois, L., Hank, T., Izaurralde, R. C., Jacquemin, I., Liu, W., Olin, S., Pugh, T., Williams, K. E., Zabel, F. (2021): Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios. - Environmental Research Letters, 16, 3, 034040.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd8fc

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Müller, Christoph1, Author              
Franke, James2, Author
Jägermeyr, Jonas1, Author              
Ruane, Alex C.2, Author
Elliott, Joshua2, Author
Moyer, Elisabeth2, Author
Heinke, Jens1, Author              
Falloon, Peter2, Author
Folberth, Christian2, Author
Francois, Louis2, Author
Hank, Tobias2, Author
Izaurralde, R. César2, Author
Jacquemin, Ingrid2, Author
Liu, Wenfeng2, Author
Olin, Stefan2, Author
Pugh, Thomas2, Author
Williams, Karina E.2, Author
Zabel, Florian2, Author
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2External Organizations, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Concerns over climate change are motivated in large part because of their impact on human society. Assessing the effect of that uncertainty on specific potential impacts is demanding, since it requires a systematic survey over both climate and impacts models. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty in projected crop yields for maize, spring and winter wheat, rice, and soybean, using a suite of 9 crop models and up to 45 CMIP5 and 34 CMIP6 climate projections for three different forcing scenarios. To make this task computationally tractable, we use a new set of statistical crop model emulators. We find that climate and crop models contribute about equally to overall uncertainty. While the ranges of yield uncertainties under CMIP5 and CMIP6 projections are similar, median impact in aggregate total caloric production is typically more negative for the CMIP6 projections (+1 to -19%) than for CMIP5 (+5 to -13%). In the first half of the 21st century and for individual crops is the spread across crop models typically wider than that across climate models, but we find distinct differences between crops: globally, wheat and maize uncertainties are dominated by the crop models, but soybean and rice are more sensitive to the climate projections. Climate models with very similar global mean warming can lead to very different aggregate impacts so that climate model uncertainties remain a significant contributor to agricultural impacts uncertainty. These results show the utility of large-ensemble methods that allow comprehensively evaluating factors affecting crop yields or other impacts under climate change. The crop model ensemble used here is unbalanced and pulls the assumption that all projections are equally plausible into question. Better methods for consistent model testing, also at the level of individual processes, will have to be developed and applied by the crop modeling community.

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 Dates: 2021-01-042021-01-062021-02-26
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: MDB-ID: yes - 3078
PIKDOMAIN: RD2 - Climate Resilience
PIKDOMAIN: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd8fc
Organisational keyword: RD2 - Climate Resilience
Organisational keyword: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Research topic keyword: Food & Agriculture
Research topic keyword: Land use
Research topic keyword: Climate impacts
Regional keyword: Global
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OATYPE: Gold Open Access
Working Group: Land Use and Resilience
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Title: Environmental Research Letters
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 16 (3) Sequence Number: 034040 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/150326
Publisher: IOP Publishing