Southeast Climate Consortium Publications

The following list of Southeast Climate Consortium publications is current through early 2005 and will be updated on a continual basis with the latest peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, abstracts and presentations, theses and dissertations, and consortium technical reports.

To view the list of papers under each category, click on the appropriate group heading below. Alternatively, to collapse a list of papers, click again on the appropriate group heading.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Hansen, J.W., Jones, J.W., Irmak, A., and Royce, F.S. In press. ENSO impacts on crop production in the Southeast US. Impacts of Climate Variability on Agriculture. ASA Special Publication, Amer. Soc. Agron., Madison, Wis.
Jagtap, S.S., J.W. Jones, P. Hildebrand, D. Letson, J.J. O'Brien, G. Podestá, F. Zazueta, D. Zierden. Responding To Stakeholders' Demands For Climate Information: From Research to Practical Applications in Florida. Accepted by Agricultural Systems.
Jones, J.W., J.W. Hansen, F.S. Royce, and C.D. Messina. (submitted). Potential benefits of climate forecasting to agriculture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.
Letson, D., G.P. Podestá, C.Messina and R.A. Ferreyra. The uncertain value of perfect ENSO phase forecasts: stochastic agricultural prices and intra-phase climatic variations. Climatic Change 00:00-00. (In Press)
Letson, D., Guillermo Podestá, Carlos Messina and R. Andrés Ferreyra. ENSO Forecast Value, Variable Climate and Stochastic Prices. Submitted to American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Podestá, G.P., D. Letson, C. Messina, F. Royce, R.A. Ferreyra, J. Jones, J. Hansen, I. Llovet, M. Grondona, J.J. O’Brien. In Press. Use of ENSO-related climate information in agricultural decision making in Argentina: a pilot experience. Agricultural Systems.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Barham, J., Y. Gichon, S. Humphries, F. Rossi, D. Alvira, A. Rios, P.E. Hildebrand, V.E. Cabrera, N. Breuer. 2004. Assessment of the format, content, and potential uses of the AgClimate website and crop yield risk assessment tool by extension agents in North Florida. Southeast Climate Consortium Technical Report Series: SECC-2004-001. Gainesville, FL.
Breuer, N., P. Gilreath, G. McAvoy, D. Letson, C. Fraisse. 2004. Using seasonal climate variability forecasts: Risk management for tomato production in South Florida. Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Gainesville, FL. IFAS Publication CIR 1450. Available on-line at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE269
Breuer, N., M. Langholtz, D. Zierden, and C. Fraisse. 2004. Using seasonal climate variability forecasts to plan forest plantation establishment. Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Gainesville, FL. IFAS/EDIS publication ABE 354. Available on-line at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE282.
Fraisse, C., D. Zierden, N. Breuer, J. Jackson, C. Brown. 2004. Climate forecast and decision making in agriculture. Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Gainesville, FL. IFAS Publication ABE 352. Available on-line at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE267.
Hoogenboom, G., J.W. Jones, P.W. Wilkens, C.H. Porter, W.D. Batchelor, L.A. Hunt, K.J. Boote, U. Singh, O. Uryasev, W.T. Bowen, A.J. Gijsman, A. du Toit, J.W. White, and G.Y. Tsuji. 2004. Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer Version 4.0 [CD-ROM]. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.

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Cabrera, V.E., Caudle, A. and P.E. Hildebrand. 1999. Potential applications of seasonal climate prediction to crop production in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida: Report of farmer interviews. Florida Consortium Working Paper.
Florida Consortium of Universities. 1997. Associations between ENSO phases and country-level yields of maize, wheat, and soybean in Argentina. In G.J. Berri (ed), Efectos de El Niño sobre la variabilidad climática, agricultura y recursos hídricos en el Sudeste de Sudamérica. Workshop and Conference on the 1997-98 El Niño: Impacts and Potential Applications of Climate Prediction in Southeastern South America, 10-12 December 1997, Montevideo, Uruguay, pp. 38-39.
Hansen, J.W. and J.W. Jones. In press. Scaling-up crop model applications for climate prediction applications. Commissioned for the CLIMAG Geneva Workshop, WMO Headquarters, Geneva, 27-30 September 1999.
Hildebrand, P. and co-authors. 1999. Farmers' use of weather and climate forecasts and effects on farmers of changes in Climate. Florida Consortium Working Paper.
Hildebrand, P. (ed.). 1999. Potential use of long range climate forecasts by agricultural extension agents in Florida: A Sondeo Report. Staff Paper SP 99-8. Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 25 pp.
Manton, M.J., P.S., Bindraban, S. Gadgil, G.L. Hammer, J.W. Hansen, and J.W. Jones. In press. Implementation of a CLIMAG Demonstration Project. Presented at the CLIMAG Geneva Workshop, WMO Headquarters, Geneva, 27-30 September 1999.
Messina, C.D. 1999. El Niño-Southern Oscillation y la productividad de los cultivos en la zona Pampeana: evaluacion de estrategias para mitigar el riesgo climático [El Niño-Southern Oscillation and crop productivity in thePampean Region: Assessment of strategies to mitigate climatic risk]. MSc. Thesis. Facultad de Agronomía, Univerisidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
O'Brien, J.J., D.F. Zierden, D. Legler, J.W. Hansen, J.W., Jones, A.G. Smajstrla, G.P. Podestá, and D. Letson. 1999. El Niño, La Niña and Florida's Climate: Effects on Agriculture and Forestry. The Florida Consortium (Florida State Univ., Univ. of Florida, and Univ. of Miami).
Podestá, G.P. 1999. Tracking El Niño for informed policymaking. IAI's current and future contributions to El Niño research. Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, 1997-98 Annual Report, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil.
Podestá, G.P, D. Letson, J. Jones, J. Hansen, J.J. O’Brien and D. Legler. 1999. Regional Application of ENSO-based climate forecasts to agriculture in the Americas. NOAA Economics and Human Dimensions Investigators Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 26–28 July 1999.

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Books and Book Chapters

Conference Proceedings, Abstracts, & Presentations

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Jones, J.W., P. Hildebrand, S. Jagtap, F. Zazueta, J.J. O’Brien, D. Zierden, D. Letson, and G. Podestá. 2001. An operational program for applications of climate information: A cooperative venture with Florida’s agricultural extension system. 81st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 14–19 January 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Messina, C.D., Jones, J.W., Letson, D. and G.P. Podesta. 2001. Potential use of Climate Forecasts in Managing Tomato Production in Florida and Puerto Rico. Annual Meeting Abstracts, Charlotte, NC.
Messina, C.D., Jones, J.W., and Hansen, J.W. 2001. Understanding ENSO effects on tomato yields in Florida: a modeling approach. Proceedings 2nd International Symposium Modelling Cropping Systems, Florence, Italy, 16-18 July. pp. 155-156
Podestá, G.P., D. Letson, J. Jones, and J.J. O’Brien. 2001. Application of Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Agriculture in the Southeastern US. Submitted to 81st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Podestá, G.P. Predicción climática en el sector agrícola: un proceso, no un producto [Climate prediction in agriculture: a process, not a product]. VIII Argentine Meteorology Congress and IX Latin American and Iberic Meteorology Congress. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7–11 May 2001. Invited panel presentation.
Podestá, G.P., D. Letson, J. Jones, J.J. O’Brien, P. Hildebrandt and F. Zazueta. 2001. An Operational Program for Applications of Climate Information: A Cooperative Venture with Florida's Agricultural Extension System. Submitted to 81st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

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Grondona, M., C. Messina and G.P. Podestá. 1999. ENSO-related climate variability in southeastern South America: statistical approaches to agricultural risk assessment and management. Global Change Symposium, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 10–15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas.
Bidegain, M., and P. Krecl. 1999. Associations between surface temperature anomalies over Southeastern South America (Uruguay) and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Global Change Symposium, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 10–15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Irmak, A., J.W. Hansen,.and J.W. Jones. 1999. El Niño-Southern Oscillation influences on Florida Crop Yields. In Graduate Student Forum 1999. Graduate Student Council, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. p. 145.
Llovet, I., E. Terreno, E. Gentile, and A. Barsky. Understanding use and perception of climate information among farmers in the Pampean region, Argentina: A sociological research. Global Change Symposium, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 10–15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Royce, F.S., J.W. Jones, and J.W. Hansen. 1999. Optimization of Field Crop Management Using Simulated Annealing: A Tool for Planning and Comparison. Poster presented at the Third International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development (SAAD-III). Lima, Peru, November, 1999.
Royce, F.S., D. Zierden, and D. Letson. 1999. Climate forecasts and Florida agriculture: Integrating research and extension efforts. District I County Extension Directors Meeting, Milton, Florida, 9 December 1999.
Podestá, G.P., J. Hansen, J. Jones, C. Kiker, T. LaRow, D. Legler, D. Letson, J.J. O'Brien, F.Royce. 1999. An end-to-end framework for the effective application of ENSO-related climate forecasts in the agricultural sector of Argentina. Global Change Symposium, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 10–15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Bidegain, M., and P. Krecl. 1998. Comportamiento de la temperatura en el sudeste de Sudamérica (Uruguay) asociado al fenómeno ENSO. VIII Congreso Brasileño y VIII Congreso Ibero-Latinoamericano de Meteorología, 26-30 October 1998, Brasilia, Brazil.
Hansen, J.W., and J.W. Jones. 1998. ENSO impacts on crop production in the Southeast US. In 1998 Agronomy Abstracts. Am. Soc. Agronomy, Madison, WI, USA. (Abstract of invited oral presentation)
Hansen, J.W., J.W. Jones, and L. Goddard. 1998. Disaggregating climate model predictions for crop simulation applications. In 1998 Agronomy Abstracts. Am. Soc. Agronomy, Madison, WI, USA.
Letson, D., M. Grondona, J. Hansen, G. Magrin, G. Parellada, G.P. Podestá, and F. Royce. 1998. Vulnerability of agriculture in Argentina to ENSO-related climatic variability. Presented at the XXI International Congress of Latin American Studies Association, 24-26 September 1998, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Podestá, G.P., M. Marino, H. Hordij, and M. Bidegain. 1998. Presentación alternativa del pronóstico regional de precipitación (An alternative presentation of regional precipitation forecasts). Presented at the Taller sobre El Niño y sus Impactos en el MERCOSUR: Respuestas Nacionales e Internacionales, 26–28 August 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Royce, F.S., J.W. Hansen, J.W. Jones. 1998. Optimization of Agricultural Management using Crop Models and Simulated Annealing. Poster presented at American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 1998.
Royce, F., S. Meira and E. Guevara. 1998. Optimización de Manejo de Frijol Soja y Maíz Utilizando Modelos de Simulación e Información de Fase ENOS en Pergamino, Argentina. [Optimization of Soybean and Maize Management using Simulation Models and ENSO Phase Information at Pergamino, Argentina]. Paper presented at the 11th Scientific Seminar, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, San José de las Lajas, Cuba, November, 1998.