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Agricultural Mitigation And Adaptation To Climate Change In Yolo County, Ca, Louise Jackson, Van R. Haden, Allan Hollander, Hyunok Lee, Mark Lubell, Vishal Mehta, Toby O'Geen, Meredith T. Niles, Josh Perlman, David Purkey, William Salas, Daniel Sumner, M Tomuta, M Dempsey, Stephen Wheeler

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Publications

This place‐based case study in an agricultural county in California’s Central Valley focused on the period of 2010–2050, and dealt with biophysical and socioeconomic issues related to both mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to adaptation to an uncertain climate. In the past 100 years, changes in crop acreage has been more related to crop price and availability of irrigation water than to growing degree days during summer, and in fact, summer temperatures have increased less than winter temperatures. Econometric analysis indicated that warmer winters, as projected by Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory‐Bias Corrected Constructed Analog during 2035–2050, could result …