Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland

This research study investigates the impact of air temperature and precipitation on annual potato crop yield in Finland region and a local area in northern Finland. For this, the annual crop yield data of regional and local case study area is processed using Z-score normalization technique. Classifi...

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Main Authors: Kedar Surendranath Ghag, Amirhossein Ahrari, Anandharuban Panchanathan, Syed M.T. Mustafa, Toni Liedes, Björn Klöve, Ali Torabi Haghighi
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Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375524000169
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author Kedar Surendranath Ghag
Amirhossein Ahrari
Anandharuban Panchanathan
Syed M.T. Mustafa
Toni Liedes
Björn Klöve
Ali Torabi Haghighi
author_facet Kedar Surendranath Ghag
Amirhossein Ahrari
Anandharuban Panchanathan
Syed M.T. Mustafa
Toni Liedes
Björn Klöve
Ali Torabi Haghighi
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description This research study investigates the impact of air temperature and precipitation on annual potato crop yield in Finland region and a local area in northern Finland. For this, the annual crop yield data of regional and local case study area is processed using Z-score normalization technique. Classification of computed z-score values was carried out into different classes ranging between the most beneficial crop yield year and the most vulnerable crop yield year. Later, the detection of feasible potato cropping season at monthly and daily scale was carried out using different weather parameters. Further, long-term trend analysis using Mann-Kendall's approach at annual, seasonal, and monthly scales was carried out using 60 years of dataset of both case study areas. Then after, the comparative analysis of annual crop yield and the characteristics obtained within climate data using different statistical approaches at annual, seasonal, and monthly scale. Finally, multivariate analysis was carried out to find most influential climate variables obtained using different statistical signatures. The results shows that, over the 100 years of period the annual potato crop yield of regional case study area shows a rising trend with declining area under potato crop. Classification approach found 16 % annual yield scored lowest Z-score while, 18% the highest. Likewise, 20 years of data for the local case study area found that 25 % of the dataset scored the highest Z-score and 15 % of the dataset values scored the lowest. Long-term trend analysis of air temperature shows significant increasing trend annually, seasonally and for monthly during the months between July-September. Whereas, similar procedure with the precipitation data showed increasing trend only at annual scale with the precipitation data analysis. During the comparative analysis between the annual crop yield data based on z-score classification and different statistical results obtained from weather parameters such as variation of precipitation and temperature sum, long-term climate data maximum-minimum totals seasonally as well as monthly during crop growing season; noticeable anomalies were observed in the weather parameters in line with the crop yield years grouped into the lowest and the highest Z-scores. The Multivariate analysis emphasized the impact of air temperature over precipitation on potato crop yield. Present study provides quantitative assessment on usefulness of long-term climate signatures for region specific either event-based or crop-based modelling development efforts to provide efficient decision support for enhancing farm-level crop productivity and sustainability of local and regional agriculture.
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spelling doaj.art-0846e3456891444795459a3539f2e7362024-03-25T04:18:16ZengElsevierSmart Agricultural Technology2772-37552024-03-017100411Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in FinlandKedar Surendranath Ghag0Amirhossein Ahrari1Anandharuban Panchanathan2Syed M.T. Mustafa3Toni Liedes4Björn Klöve5Ali Torabi Haghighi6Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Corresponding author at: Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandWater, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandHydrology and Environmental Hydraulics Group, Wageningen University, the NetherlandsIntelligent Machines and Systems Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandWater, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandWater, Energy, and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandThis research study investigates the impact of air temperature and precipitation on annual potato crop yield in Finland region and a local area in northern Finland. For this, the annual crop yield data of regional and local case study area is processed using Z-score normalization technique. Classification of computed z-score values was carried out into different classes ranging between the most beneficial crop yield year and the most vulnerable crop yield year. Later, the detection of feasible potato cropping season at monthly and daily scale was carried out using different weather parameters. Further, long-term trend analysis using Mann-Kendall's approach at annual, seasonal, and monthly scales was carried out using 60 years of dataset of both case study areas. Then after, the comparative analysis of annual crop yield and the characteristics obtained within climate data using different statistical approaches at annual, seasonal, and monthly scale. Finally, multivariate analysis was carried out to find most influential climate variables obtained using different statistical signatures. The results shows that, over the 100 years of period the annual potato crop yield of regional case study area shows a rising trend with declining area under potato crop. Classification approach found 16 % annual yield scored lowest Z-score while, 18% the highest. Likewise, 20 years of data for the local case study area found that 25 % of the dataset scored the highest Z-score and 15 % of the dataset values scored the lowest. Long-term trend analysis of air temperature shows significant increasing trend annually, seasonally and for monthly during the months between July-September. Whereas, similar procedure with the precipitation data showed increasing trend only at annual scale with the precipitation data analysis. During the comparative analysis between the annual crop yield data based on z-score classification and different statistical results obtained from weather parameters such as variation of precipitation and temperature sum, long-term climate data maximum-minimum totals seasonally as well as monthly during crop growing season; noticeable anomalies were observed in the weather parameters in line with the crop yield years grouped into the lowest and the highest Z-scores. The Multivariate analysis emphasized the impact of air temperature over precipitation on potato crop yield. Present study provides quantitative assessment on usefulness of long-term climate signatures for region specific either event-based or crop-based modelling development efforts to provide efficient decision support for enhancing farm-level crop productivity and sustainability of local and regional agriculture.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375524000169AgriculturePotato yieldClimate variabilityRainfallTemperature effectsGrowing degree days
spellingShingle Kedar Surendranath Ghag
Amirhossein Ahrari
Anandharuban Panchanathan
Syed M.T. Mustafa
Toni Liedes
Björn Klöve
Ali Torabi Haghighi
Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
Smart Agricultural Technology
Agriculture
Potato yield
Climate variability
Rainfall
Temperature effects
Growing degree days
title Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
title_full Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
title_fullStr Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
title_full_unstemmed Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
title_short Effect of long-term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in Finland
title_sort effect of long term climate signatures on regional and local potato yield in finland
topic Agriculture
Potato yield
Climate variability
Rainfall
Temperature effects
Growing degree days
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375524000169
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