Including tropical croplands in a terrestrial biosphere model: Application to West Africa

Climatic Change

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 755-782

  Berg, Alexis ^a,b   Sultan, Benjamin ^a   de Noblet Ducoudré, Nathalie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP MODEL; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS; GROWTH AND YIELD; LAND SURFACE FLUXES; MONSOON RAINS; MONSOON SYSTEM; ORCHIDEE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REANALYSIS; SCALE RELATIONSHIP; SENEGAL; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE ALBEDO; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION MODEL; WEST AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; FORESTRY; HEAT FLUX; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALBEDO; ARABLE LAND; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HEAT FLUX; MILLET; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER RESOURCE; YIELD RESPONSE;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 78651421236     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9874-x     Document Type: Article

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