Soil climate and decomposer activity in Sub-Saharan Africa estimated from standard weather station data: A simple climate index for soil carbon balance calculations

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Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 379-386

  Andrén, Olof ^a,b   Kihara, Job ^b,c   Bationo, André ^b   Vanlauwe, Bernard ^d   Kätterer, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Soil Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

^b CIAT TSBF   (Kenya)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d International Centre for Tropical Agriculture   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; DECOMPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34548265750     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[379:SCADAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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35. We are grateful to Dr. F. Gichuki, Mr. J. Ndungu and the entire Natural Resources Monitoring. Modelling and Management (NRM3) group. Dr. S.K. Kimani of KARI-Muguga, and P. Tittonel of TSBF-CIAT for providing weather station data and all the staff at METEO France that have participated in the collection and compilation of the West and Central African data. The project was funded by the Swedish organizations Formas, Sida, and SLU as well as TSBF-CIAT in Kenya. The SAS programs (readable with a text editor) are available for download from http://www-mv.slu.se/vaxtnaring/olle/Re_clim.htm. An Excel version of ICBM, parameterized for the model experiment above, is also available. The main SAS program used for calculations here is re_clim_Afr_11.sas.
36. First submitted 20 March 2006. Accepted for publication 3 January 2007.