Coupled hydrological-economic modelling for optimised irrigated cultivation in a semi-arid catchment of West Africa

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-395

  Ahrends, H ^a   Mast, M ^a   Rodgers, Ch ^b   Kunstmann, H ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision support; Distributed hydrological modelling; Economic modelling; Irrigated agriculture; Model coupling; Non linear programming; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; MODEL COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION MODEL;

CULTIVATION;

CATCHMENT; CULTIVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; STAKEHOLDER; WATER BUDGET;

AFRICA; GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 36148973231     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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