List of works by David Lobell

A Biogeophysical Approach for Automated SWIR Unmixing of Soils and Vegetation

scientific article published in 2000

A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation

article

A method for quantifying vulnerability, applied to the agricultural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico

A scalable satellite-based crop yield mapper

scholarly article by David Lobell et al published July 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment

A walk on the wild side

article

Adaptation potential of European agriculture in response to climate change

article

Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

scholarly article by Thomas W. Hertel & David Lobell published November 2014 in Energy Economics

An approach to understanding persistent yield variation—A case study in North China Plain

article

An assessment of wheat yield sensitivity and breeding gains in hot environments.

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Analysis of wheat yield and climatic trends in Mexico

article

Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

Anticipated burden and mitigation of carbon-dioxide-induced nutritional deficiencies and related diseases: A simulation modeling study

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Assessing climate adaptation options and uncertainties for cereal systems in West Africa

article

Assessing the heterogeneity and persistence of farmers’ maize yield performance across the North China Plain

article

Biogeophysical impacts of cropland management changes on climate

article by D. B. Lobell et al published 2006 in Geophysical Research Letters

Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource

scientific article

California perennial crops in a changing climate

Changes in diurnal temperature range and national cereal yields

Climate adaptation as mitigation: the case of agricultural investments

scholarly article by David Lobell et al published 12 February 2013 in Environmental Research Letters

Climate and Civil War: Is the Relationship Robust?

scientific article published in October 2010

Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields

scientific article published in February 2003

Climate change adaptation in crop production: Beware of illusions

article

Climate change uncertainty for daily minimum and maximum temperatures: A model inter-comparison

article

Climate extremes in California agriculture

article

Climate robustly linked to African civil war

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Climate trends and global crop production since 1980

scientific article (publication date: 29 July 2011)

Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania

article

Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania

scholarly article by Syud Amer Ahmed et al published February 2011 in Global Environmental Change

Colocation opportunities for large solar infrastructures and agriculture in drylands

Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation

scientific article

Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty

scientific article published on August 2016

Comments on “Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change?”

article

Comparing and combining process-based crop models and statistical models with some implications for climate change

scholarly article by Michael J Roberts et al published 1 September 2017 in Environmental Research Letters

Comparing estimates of climate change impacts from process-based and statistical crop models

article

Comparison of earth observing-1 ali and landsat etm+ for crop identification and yield prediction in mexico

article published in 2003

Continuous Corn and Soybean Yield Penalties across Hundreds of Thousands of Fields

Contribution of persistent factors to yield gaps in high-yield irrigated maize

scholarly article by Bhupinder S. Farmaha et al published February 2016 in Field Crops Research

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

Crop yields in a geoengineered climate

Cropland distributions from temporal unmixing of MODIS data

scholarly article by David Lobell & Greg Asner published November 2004 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Deep Transfer Learning for Crop Yield Prediction with Remote Sensing Data

a scholarly article on crop yield prediction in developing countries

Differences, or lack thereof, in wheat and maize yields under three low-warming scenarios

article

Direct climate effects of perennial bioenergy crops in the United States

scientific article (publication date: 15 March 2011)

Direct impacts on local climate of sugar-cane expansion in Brazil

article

Effect of vineyard-scale climate variability on Pinot noir phenolic composition

article

Empirical evidence for a recent slowdown in irrigation-induced cooling

scientific article

Errors in climate datasets and their effects on statistical crop models

Estimated impacts of emission reductions on wheat and maize crops

article

Evaluating strategies for improved water use in spring wheat with CERES

article

Evaluating the Contribution of Weather to Maize and Wheat Yield Trends in 12 U.S. Counties

article published in 2012

Extreme heat effects on wheat senescence in India

article by David Lobell et al published 29 January 2012 in Nature Climate Change

Feedbacks of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Climate Change

scholarly article by Christopher B Field et al published November 2007 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

From sunlight to seed: Assessing limits to solar radiation capture and conversion in agro-ecosystems

scientific article published in 2020

Getting caught with our plants down: the risks of a global crop yield slowdown from climate trends in the next two decades

article

Global crop exposure to critical high temperatures in the reproductive period: historical trends and future projections

Global scale climate–crop yield relationships and the impacts of recent warming

scientific article

Greater sensitivity to drought accompanies maize yield increase in the U.S. Midwest

scientific article

Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol.

scientific article

Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification

scientific article

Growing sensitivity of maize to water scarcity under climate change.

scientific article

Hierarchical modeling of seed variety yields and decision making for future planting plans

article

Historical climate trends, deforestation, and maize and bean yields in Nicaragua

Historical effects of CO2 and climate trends on global crop water demand

Historical effects of temperature and precipitation on California crop yields

Hot spots of wheat yield decline with rising temperatures

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

Identification of Saline Soils with Multiyear Remote Sensing of Crop Yields

Identification of external influences on temperatures in California

Impacts of Day Versus Night Temperatures on Spring Wheat Yields

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Impacts of future climate change on California perennial crop yields: Model projections with climate and crop uncertainties

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Impacts of precipitation and temperature on crop yields in the Pampas

Improving the accuracy of satellite-based high-resolution yield estimation: A test of multiple scalable approaches

Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts

article

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture

Increasing drought and diminishing benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean yields across the US Midwest

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Interpreting recent temperature trends in California

Irrigation cooling effect on temperature and heat index extremes

scholarly article

Land-Cover and Surface Water Change Drive Large Albedo Increases in South America*

article by Scott R. Loarie et al published February 2011 in Earth Interactions

Landsat-based classification in the cloud: An opportunity for a paradigm shift in land cover monitoring

scholarly article by G. Azzari & D.B. Lobell published December 2017 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Learning to Interpret Satellite Images using Wikipedia

scientific article published in August 2019

Mapping Smallholder Wheat Yields and Sowing Dates Using Micro-Satellite Data

Mapping Smallholder Yield Heterogeneity at Multiple Scales in Eastern Africa

article

Mapping Sugarcane in Central India with Smartphone Crowdsourcing

scientific article published in 2022

Mapping twenty years of corn and soybean across the US Midwest using the Landsat archive

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Moisture Effects on Soil Reflectance

article

Monitoring Ethiopian Wheat Fungus with Satellite Imagery and Deep Feature Learning

scholarly article published July 2017

Narrowing the agronomic yield gap with improved nitrogen use efficiency: a modeling approach.

scientific article published in January 2010

Nonlinear heat effects on African maize as evidenced by historical yield trials

article

On the role of anthropogenic climate change in the emerging food crisis in southern Africa in the 2019-2020 growing season

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

On the use of statistical models to predict crop yield responses to climate change

article

Perennial Questions of Hydrology and Climate

scientific article published in Science

Pharaoh's Dream Revisited: An Integrated US Midwest Field Research Network for Climate Adaptation

scholarly article by David Gustafson et al published 16 December 2015 in BioScience

Potential bias of model projected greenhouse warming in irrigated regions

article

Potential impact of U.S. biofuels on regional climate

scholarly article

Predicting Economic Development using Geolocated Wikipedia Articles

scientific article published in August 2019

Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030.

scientific article

Projected temperature changes indicate significant increase in interannual variability of U.S. maize yields

article

Quantifying Vegetation Change in Semiarid Environments

article

Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century

scientific article

Reduction of transpiration and altered nutrient allocation contribute to nutrient decline of crops grown in elevated CO(2) concentrations

scientific article

Regional Differences in the Influence of Irrigation on Climate

Regional disparities in the CO2fertilization effect and implications for crop yields

Regional importance of crop yield constraints: Linking simulation models and geostatistics to interpret spatial patterns

scientific article published in 2006

Regional-scale assessment of soil salinity in the Red River Valley using multi-year MODIS EVI and NDVI.

scientific article published on 30 December 2009

Relative importance of soil and climate variability for nitrogen management in irrigated wheat

Remote sensing assessment of regional yield losses due to sub-optimal planting dates and fallow period weed management

article

Remote sensing of regional crop production in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: estimates and uncertainties

article

Remote sensing of soil degradation: introduction.

scientific article

Reply to 'Temperature and drought effects on maize yield'

Reply to Gonsamo and Chen: Yield findings independent of cause of climate trends

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Reply to Sutton et al.: Relationship between temperature and conflict is robust

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

Response of double cropping suitability to climate change in the United States

article

Rising temperatures reduce global wheat production

article

Robust features of future climate change impacts on sorghum yields in West Africa

article

Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture

article

Satellite Monitoring of Yield Responses to Irrigation Practices across Thousands of Fields

article

Satellite detection of earlier wheat sowing in India and implications for yield trends

article by David Lobell et al published February 2013 in Agricultural Systems

Satellite detection of rising maize yield heterogeneity in the U.S. Midwest

Satellite estimates of productivity and light use efficiency in United States agriculture, 1982-98

article

Satellite evidence for yield growth opportunities in Northwest India

article

Satellite-Based Detection of Salinity and Sodicity Impacts on Wheat Production in the Mexicali Valley

Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Seasonal energy storage using bioenergy production from abandoned croplands

article

Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation

article

Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

article

Simulated hydroclimatic impacts of projected Brazilian sugarcane expansion

article

Soil, climate, and management impacts on regional wheat productivity in Mexico from remote sensing

article published in 2002

Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases

scientific article

Subpixel canopy cover estimation of coniferous forests in Oregon using SWIR imaging spectrometry

article

Temperature and violence

Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Testing Remote Sensing Approaches for Assessing Yield Variability among Maize Fields

The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

scientific article

The Effect of Irrigation on Regional Temperatures: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Trends in California, 1934–2002

article

The International Heat Stress Genotype Experiment for modeling wheat response to heat: field experiments and AgMIP-Wheat multi-model simulations

The Role of Irrigation Expansion in Past and Future Temperature Trends

article published in 2008

The benefits of recent warming for maize production in high latitude China

article

The case of the missing wheat

article published in 2012

The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on human and natural systems

scholarly article by Dáithí Stone et al published 30 August 2013 in Climatic Change

The cost of uncertainty for nitrogen fertilizer management: A sensitivity analysis

article

The critical role of extreme heat for maize production in the United States

article

The effects of extremely wet planting conditions on maize and soybean yields

article

The fingerprint of climate trends on European crop yields

scientific article

The global overlap of bioenergy and carbon sequestration potential

scholarly article by P. A. Turner et al published 3 April 2018 in Climatic Change

The global potential of bioenergy on abandoned agriculture lands

scientific article

The impacts of future climate and carbon dioxide changes on the average and variability of US maize yields under two emission scenarios

article published in 2015

The important but weakening maize yield benefit of grain filling prolongation in the US Midwest

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

The influence of climate change on global crop productivity

scientific article

The poverty implications of climate-induced crop yield changes by 2030

The role of irrigation in changing wheat yields and heat sensitivity in India

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

The shared and unique values of optical, fluorescence, thermal and microwave satellite data for estimating large-scale crop yields

article

The shifting influence of drought and heat stress for crops in northeast Australia.

scientific article

The use of satellite data for crop yield gap analysis

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Towards fine resolution global maps of crop yields: Testing multiple methods and satellites in three countries

scholarly article by George Azzari et al published December 2017 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Towards probabilistic projections of climate change impacts on global crop yields

scholarly article by C. Tebaldi & D. B. Lobell published 19 April 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters

Tradeoffs and Synergies between biofuel production and large solar infrastructure in deserts

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

US maize adaptability

Using Satellite Imagery to Understand and Promote Sustainable Development

scientific article published in October 2020

Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Using remotely sensed temperature to estimate climate response functions

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Using satellite data to identify the causes of and potential solutions for yield gaps in India’s Wheat Belt

Using satellite remote sensing to understand maize yield gaps in the North China Plain

article

View angle effects on canopy reflectance and spectral mixture analysis of coniferous forests using AVIRIS

Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

scientific article

Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India

scientific article published in September 2023

Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C3 and C4 Crops

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

What aspects of future rainfall changes matter for crop yields in West Africa?

article

Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? The importance of temperature relative to precipitation

scholarly article by David Lobell & Marshall Burke published July 2008 in Environmental Research Letters

Yield trends under varying environmental conditions for sorghum and wheat across Australia

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Yield uncertainty at the field scale evaluated with multi-year satellite data