Claim · model-written summary
The annual maximum consecutive dry days (CDDmax) in the Southern zone was up to about 8 days.
- Taxon
- tree tomato, quinoa, potato, and maize
Solanum tuberosum
Zea mays
Solanum betaceum
Chenopodium quinoae0 - Outcome
- CDDmaxe4
- Value
- up to ∼8 dayse4
- Setting
- Southern zonee4
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Verbatim
e0“tree tomato, quinoa, potato, and maize”
e4“the Southern zone concentrated dryness hazards, with 1–5 dry spells ≥5 days per year and CDDmax up to ∼8 days”
Title
Luis Fernando Guerrero-Vásquez; María del Cisne Ortega-Cabrera; Nathalia Alexandra Chacón-Reino; et al. Agriculture 2025. doi:10.3390/agriculture15181980
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Method / resource Models explained a wide range of variability in the crop outcomes across crops and zones (approximately R2 0.55 to 0.99).
- Method / resource Quinoa showed the most consistent model fits, with several outcomes at R2 above 0.90.
- Observation The Southern zone had 1–5 dry spells of at least 5 days per year.
- Association Heat-day frequency showed non-significant declines across zones in 2015–2022.
- Observation Reanalysis frost days were virtually zero.
- Mechanism The near-zero reanalysis frost days are consistent with under-detection of local valley frosts at coarse resolution.
- Association Vulnerabilities in the South are driven by precipitation.
- Recommendation Quinoa is supported as a resilient option under increasing climate stress.