How satellite rainfall estimate errors may impact rainfed cereal yield simulation in West Africa

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 180, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-131

  Ramarohetra, Johanna ^a   Sultan, Benjamin ^a   Baron, Christian ^b   Gaiser, Thomas ^c   Gosset, Marielle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crop yield; Rainfall; Satellite; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; ANNUAL VARIATION; CALIBRATION; CEREAL; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CROP YIELD; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84879736746     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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