Agroclimatology

Can we unlock resilience to climate stress by better understanding linkages between the environment and biological systems? Agroclimatology allows us to explore how different processes determine plant response to climate and how climate drives the distribution of crops and their productivity. Editors Jerry L. Hatfield, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, and John H. Prueger have taken a comprehensive view of agroclimatology to assist and challenge researchers in this important area of study. Major themes include: principles of energy exchange and climatology, understanding climate change and agriculture, linkages of specific biological systems to climatology, the context of pests and diseases, methods of agroclimatology, and the application of agroclimatic principles to problem-solving in agriculture.

Jerry Hatfield is an affiliate professor of agronomy at Iowa State.

Mannava Sivakumar is the director of Climate Prediction and Adaptation Branch in the World Meteorological Organization.

John Praeger is a researcher at the USDA-ARS at the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, IA.